Jay Mailer

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Opera Holland Park

With June being a prime time to get hitched, now should be as good as any time to dig up and put on stage Felix Mendelssohn’s 1842 incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a score which features the famous Wedding March. Despite the play’s themes, this melding of classical sound and drama from historical performance ensemble Figure is from magical.

Cast Revealed For A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Opera Holland Park

This summer, acclaimed historical performance ensemble Figure return to London’s Opera Holland Park after the success of their fantastically detailed (The Guardian) 2022 performance of Handel’s Serse with a fresh staging of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Unbridled desire meets magic as Figure stages Shakespeare’s celebrated comedy, accompanied by Mendelssohn’s enchanting orchestral score. 

BWW Review: THE TEMPEST, Royal and Derngate, June 30

A National Youth Theatre ensemble shines in a specially adapted TEMPEST at Royal and Derngate, Northampton.