A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (8)
See it if you want to have a good time.
Don't see it if no reason not to. Read more
See it if you love a performance that extends beyond acting, bringing together various performance arts and like unexpected adaptations
Don't see it if if you are a Shakespeare purist and do not want story lines flipped on their head
See it if You like fun and new takes & twists on Shakespeare. Immersive and entertaining: one of the best Shakespeare productions I’ve ever seen.
Don't see it if No criticisms at all.
See it if You love physical comedy and interesting adaptations of Shakespeare plays
Don't see it if You don't like physically moving around during a play and missing big chunks of the action (speaking from experience here)
See it if You're a Shakespeare fan. It was well designed and clever reimagining the characters
Don't see it if You find Shakespeare language confusing. It retains the original script
See it if You love immersive shows, you love modern takes on Shakespeare, you want to feel like part of an event
Don't see it if You are a Shakespeare purist or don't like being involved in the action
See it if Must recommend it if you like Shakespeare work it was extremely well played
Don't see it if Don’t go if you not a fun of Shakespeare and you’ll find hard to understand it
See it if If you love modern takes on Shakespeare. Very fun and enchanting version of the original
Don't see it if You don't appreciate interesting changes to Shakespeare
Critic Reviews (10)
...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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...combining eroticism and enchantment, levity and darkness, Hytner’s latest hit scales the heights...it’s not just a show for (almost) all ages but one that deserves to be talked about for years to come.'
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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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...Nicholas Hytner’s immersive, irreverent, spectacular, slyly feminist, sometimes properly dreamlike staging of Shakespeare’s summer special...The positives outweigh any overkill...'
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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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This is not to say it’s not a lot of fun... the production has a timely embracive message, is easy to follow and enjoy. There’s clarity of verse throughout... but what it lacks is clarity of purpose.'
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...Nicholas Hytner’s gloriously funny, immersive take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre...David Moorst excels as the obstreperous hobgoblin Puck.'
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There are some overblown moments, yet this irreverent interpretation has the atmosphere of a party. It’s best experienced as a groundling in the theatre’s pit, where the sense of mischief spreads like a giant smile.'
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