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Dir: Raz Shaw.
Cast: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Description: An Elizabethan-styled production of Shakespeare's magical comedy, directed by Raz Shaw. Presented by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
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A fresh, irreverent Dream from Raz Shaw at Shakespeare's Globe, just one stop on its international tour.
Working on an Elizabethan booth stage, such as Shakespeare would have seen in Stratford's Market Place, but with costumes and music from the 1930s, eight actors changed character in a moment. A hat, an apron, a mechanical. Shades, fairies.
The packed yard on Bankside loved it. Bottom [Will Mannering ], often played as a pompous incompetent, here gave a delicious masterclass in overacting, Nicholas Craig style. He and Quince [ Chris McGill] had director's chairs with their names boldly on the back. Other stand-out performances from Sally Tatum as a gawky Helena [and a shy Starveling] and Bethan Walker as Puck, moonlighting from Berlin's Kit Kat Club, in top hat and black sequinned hotpants.
The Pyramus and Thisbe production, reliably hilarious, was given against a makeshift Globe backdrop – which will be even more amusing on the tour, I guess.
Two hours of magic and fun, suitable for all ages and levels of scholarship !
- Michael Gray, Chelmsford UK
