A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre)
Ends Aug 2025 2h 45m London: London Bridge
91% 15 reviews
91%
(15 Ratings)
Positive
87%
Mixed
7%
Negative
6%
Members say
Entertaining, Great acting, Delightful, Absorbing, Clever

About the Show

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

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Critic Reviews (15)

London Theatre
June 6th, 2025

"It’s a play in which the whimsical and the serious intertwine and joy prevails."
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The Telegraph (UK)
June 6th, 2025

"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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The London Evening Standard
June 6th, 2025

"It’s beautifully staged and acted, thought provoking, technically brilliant, and ends up with a party."
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WhatsOnStage
June 6th, 2025

"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 Guardian (UK)
June 6th, 2025

"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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London Theatre
June 12th, 2019
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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The Guardian (UK)
June 11th, 2019
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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Time Out London
June 12th, 2019
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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