Shakespeare's Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Published on Oct 23, 2014

Shakespeare's Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: November 26-30, 2014

Venue: Drama Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 100, 200, 320, 400, 480, 580


Features: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will be presents the Shakespeare's most popular works - A Midsummer Night's Dream at drama theatre of NCPA in Beijing from November 26th to November 30th this year.


BRIEF INTRODUCTION

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.


Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse on the south bank of the River Thames that was originally built in 1599, destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern reconstruction is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings. It was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker and built about 230 metres from the site of the original theatre. In 1997, it was opened to the public by HM Queen Elizabeth II with a production of Henry V. Shakespeare's Globe has become a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education.


A Midsummer Night's Dream

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | Dominic Dromgoole
Dominic Dromgoole is the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. Previous work at the Globe includes: Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra in 2006, Love’s Labour’s Lost in 2007and King Lear in 2008. In 2009 he directed Romeo and Juliet and A New World by Trevor Griffiths and also remounted Love’s Labour’s Lost, which then toured the USA. For the 2010 Kings and Rogues season he directed Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. In 2011 he directed Hamlet for the Globe’s small-scale tours and in 2012 directed Henry V. Last year he directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Gabriel. This year he directed the opening show in the inaugural season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Duchess of Malfi. He was Artistic Director of the Oxford Stage Company, 1999-2005, and of the Bush Theatre, 1990-1996, and Director of New Plays for the Peter Hall Company, 1996-1997. He has also directed at the Tricycle Theatre, in the West-End, and in America, Romania and Ireland. Dominic has written two books, The Full Room (2001) and Will & Me (2006).


A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare's Globe

COMPOSER | Claire van Kampen
Claire trained at the RCM, specialising in the performance of contemporary music and studying composition with Dr. Ruth Gipps. Her international career as composer, performer, writer and broadcaster has produced scores for many theatre productions, television and film. In 1990 she co-founded the theatre company Phoebus Cart with Mark Rylance. Their production of The Tempest was performed in the foundations of the Globe in 1991. As Director of Theatre Music during its founding ten years, Claire was involved in creating music for over 30 Globe productions between 1996 and 2006. Recent work includes: Henry V, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Love's Labour's Lost, King Lear and Henry IV Parts 1 & 2; Boeing-Boeing, La Bete; Nocturne and Anonymous. She is currently writing a full length story ballet on Macbeth for Pennsylvania Ballet.


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