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Home > Theatre > Don’t be an ass, catch A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Don’t be an ass, catch A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By Caroline King - May 31, 2011Posted in : Theatre

When: 31st May – 18th June 2011 at 8pm

Where: Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London SE4 2DH

£: 12 (concessions 10)

What is it?

the faction theatre co. bring to life the majesty of Shakespeare’s most popular comedy.  Using their trademark visual inventiveness, sparse costumes and props, the company encourages the audience’s imaginations to run wild with an army of Hakka-ing fairies at war over a beautiful Indian Boy, a quartet of rival lovers in the slapstick tradition, and an amateur actor transformed with an ass’s head made entirely of hands and arms.

More info: Brockley Jack

Tagged With: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, London, Mark Leipacher, the faction theatre co, William Shakespeare

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