About the Show

Nicholas Hytner’s immersive adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy returns for a limited summer run.

Step back into the enchanted forest, where fairies meddle with mortal hearts and moonlight stirs up mayhem. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows four young lovers, a troupe of bumbling actors, and the mischievous spirits of the forest as their worlds collide in a swirl of magic, confusion, and unexpected love.

Directed by Olivier Award-winning director and the Artistic Director of the Bridge Theatre Nicholas Hytner (Guys and Dolls), this acclaimed production transforms the Bridge Theatre into a dreamscape, with an immersive set placing audience members inside the action. The production reunites the original creative team behind its celebrated 2019 run, including designer Bunny Christie, composer Grant Olding, lighting designer Bruno Poet, and movement director Arlene Phillips. Expect gravity-defying fairies, rave-like energy, and a few surprises as classic meets cutting-edge.

Critic Reviews (15)

"It’s a play in which the whimsical and the serious intertwine and joy prevails."
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"The finest Dream I’ve seen – stir wonder again; even if you’re re-encountering the show, it still seems fresh and strange, a shared reverie you never want to end."
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"It’s beautifully staged and acted, thought provoking, technically brilliant, and ends up with a party."
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"There’s a full-throated and infectious sense of collective fun to proceedings that ensures we all take Puck’s proffered hand of friendship as we dance out into the night."
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"The immersive setup brings the audience into the midst of the play’s shapeshifting unreality among a comedy-gold cast of magical characters."
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For a previous production

This is hardly as radical as it seems to want to position itself, but director Nick Hytner... and his fellow creative team of designers... keep the show fast and fluid, fun and occasionally surprising.'
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For a previous production

Festive fun, ear-nibbling and high-wire antics infuse Nicholas Hytner’s startling role-reversal production...I would have enjoyed it still more if it released the microscopic beauties of Shakespeare’s text...'
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For a previous production

...a riotously gender-fluid immersive production... Even if you ignore all the bells, whistles and man-snogs, the fact of the matter is that Hytner has assembled a preposterously good comedy cast.'
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Cast and creative team