A Midsummer Night's Dream
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 9, 2010
Closed Mar 20, 2010
Opened Feb 9, 2010
Closed Mar 20, 2010
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Running Time:
3hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
3hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Peter Hall.
Set in Elizabethan England, Peter Hall's new production sees Titania, the Fairy Queen, as a portrait of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, fascinated with the theatre, besieged by courtiers but 'married to the people of England'.
A Midsummer Night's Dream reunites Peter Hall and Judi Dench, an enduring theatrical partnership lasting some fifty years. Judi Dench first played Titania for Peter Hall with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962 and they have subsequently worked together on productions such as Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre), The Royal Family (Haymarket) and Hay Fever (West End).
Judi Dench is a long standing supporter of the Rose and hosted a fundraising gala for the theatre in 2004.
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Dame Judi Dench first played Titania for director Peter Hall and the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s. Now, she returns to the role in a different incarnation of the fairy queen in Hall's new production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames, and the award-winning star delivers a truly accomplished performance.
Dench plays the queen of the forest as an aging Queen Elizabeth I, stiff and regal in her ruff and pearl-studded bodice, and sporting a wig of tight tangerine curls. She is severe to begin with, rather similar in manner and bearing to her Oscar-winning portrayal of Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. But when Oberon stre[...]