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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Barbican West End

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Barbican 2024

Opened: December 3, 2024
Closing: January 18, 2025

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Barbican Centre
(Barbican/Moorgate) Silk Street London

Experience a 'ravishing fusion of flamboyancy and fun' (Guardian) in the RSC’s smash-hit sell-out production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, transferring to London’s Barbican from 3 December.

With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare’s captivating comedy will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. As four young lovers are faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, they flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest, where the real and fairy worlds collide.

Director Eleanor Rhode returns to the RSC with a 'joyous' (Times) Dream that is magical, mischievous and full of wonder.

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Seats in the back row of the Stalls are step-free. All other Stalls seats are accessed via steps.


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Interview: 'Love Makes Every Character a Fool': Andrew Richardson on RSC's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Kat Mokrynski - January 16, 2025


The RSC’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has transferred from Stratford-upon-Avon to the Barbican Centre for the winter. Starring Mathew Baynton as Bottom, the Shakespeare comedy tells the tale of four young lovers from Athens who escape into a magical forest where they come face-to-face with the fairy world.

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by Blair Ingenthron - November 23, 2024


The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run at the Barbican beginning next month. Check out footage from inside the rehearsal room in the video here!

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