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Director Tim Supple’s internationally acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has played to full houses in London, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Verona, Italy and twice in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, at the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now, Sydney audiences will have the opportunity to see this sensual production as it visits Sydney Theatre from Tuesday 11 to Saturday 22 March 2008, following performances at the Perth and Adelaide Festivals as part of a world tour.
Created in India with Indian and Sri Lankan performers and creative team this production has been marked out by critics and audiences around the world as a seminal staging of Shakespeare’s play. The production is the culmination of a project that began in Autumn 2004 when the British Council in India and Sri Lanka commissioned Tim Supple to create and direct a theatre production to tour.
A cast of 23 dancers, musicians, actors and performers, from a hugely diverse range of locations and backgrounds, created the production which is performed in English, Tamil, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and even a little Sanskrit. The result is a passionate, energetic, thrilling and beautiful re-interpretation of the play, which casts aside familiar traditions of performing Shakespeare and replaces them with an epic, visceral and emotional power that has amazed audiences and critics in every city in which it has played.
The ‘Indian Dream’ enjoyed a triumphant return to the UK in March 2007, becoming the first play to run in London’s new venue, the Roundhouse. At the end of its six week run in London the extraordinary production sold out for a second time at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the scene of its first visit to the UK in 2006.
Arts Projects Australia and Sydney Theatre
by arrangement with Roger Chapman, Matthew Byam Shaw and Act Productions
present the Dash Arts Production
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Supple
Venue: Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
Season: Tuesday 11 March - Saturday 22 March 2008
Performances: Evenings Tuesday - Saturday 8pm (No performance Good Friday 21 March); Twilight Monday 17 March 6.30pm
Matinees: Wednesdays 1pm, Saturdays 2pm
Price: $39 – $79
Bookings: (02) 9250 1999 / Ticketek 132 849 / sydneytheatre.org.au
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