The famous comedy about love and lovelessness in a multimedia enchanted forest.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the audience's favourite comedies. Here Shakespeare has masterfully balanced love and cruelty, as well as tears that turn into laughter. And to play out the chaos of a magical midsummer night that brings order back to life as dawn breaks. But how did it all happen? Quite simply. Oberon had a quarrel with Titania and ordered Puck to find a magic flower that can evoke love. But not to make Titania fall in love with Oberon again, but to make her fall in love with anyone. Like a donkey, which is one of a group of craftsmen rehearsing a play. Two more lovers are thrown into the already colourful story, and Puck also rubs their eyes with a magic flower in their dream. The forest in which they are all wandering is suddenly full of dreams, and Oberon and Puck prefer to put things in order quickly... Walk with us through the forest of illusions thanks to the new multimedia technologies of the Theatre under Palmovka and experience a unique combination of live theatre and today's new technological possibilities.
Directed by: Michal Lang
Premiere: 21 April 2023
Running time: 2 h 20 min
Note to the audience: the production uses a smoke machine
On the occasion of the performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, as part of Palm Off Fest 2023, a discussion with translator Martin Hilský - The Near and Far Worlds of William Shakespeare, especially about A Midsummer Night's Dream. For a recording of the talk, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOHTDOmSB8.
