A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably Shakespeare’s most popular play, and with good reason.  A comedy – one of Shakespeare’s finest, with five interconnected subplots set in a forest with fairies and magical characters mixing with mortals.

Love and lust – real and imagined goes wrong with comic results and confusion reigns, but eventually (spoiler alert!) magic spells correct all that went awry and the three couples all are wed to the right pairs.

Throughout the play comedy interludes are provided by the rude mechanicals – a bunch of tradesmen who decide to put on a play for the wedding festivities.  Their antics are hilarious and have become a comedy standard.

If you don’t like Shakespeare this production is for you – come along and be immersed in our magical comedy forest and we promise you’ll laugh all the way home.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, presented by Thame Players