ROISIN MCCAY-HINES
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Bristol Old Vic / Malcolm X Centre
"The course of true love never did run smooth"
Set beneath a glittering, ethereal surface you will find Shakespeare’s dazzling play transformed into a macabre Edwardian fable. As night falls our slumbering players are swept up in an otherworldly experience, left to navigate fairy enchantments, lovers’ quarrels and patriarchal norms.
Through teasing, tyranny and trickery, familial ties become fraught and fractured; and with the early Suffrage movement creeping into the subconscious, it seems impossible to find a resolution by sunrise. This is a visionary and moralistic take on Shakespeare’s playful comedy – brimming with its original dramatic poetry.
CREATIVE TEAM
Director Paul Chesterton / Assistant Directors Phoebe Kemp & Roisin McCay-Hines / Set Designer Vyshnavi Krishnan / Costume Designer Abigail Manard / Sound Designer Jude Fullwood / Lighting Designer Muir McFadden / Composer Roisin McCay-Hines / Musical Director Jonathan Grosberg / Fight Coordinator Jonathan Howell / Movement Coordinator Joêl Daniel / Intimacy Coordinator Clare Fox / Voice & Dialect Coach Joe Leat / Production Manager Maisy Harbert / Stage Manager Katrina-Summer Richards / Deputy Stage Manager Lydia Morgan / Assistant Stage Manager Chris Stuckey / Lighting Operator Emily South / Sound Operator Jude Fullwood / Prop Supervisor Jess Manley / Construction / Manager Lewis Bamford / Costume Supervisor Eleanor Duncan
CAST
Hafsah Godsil, Oliver Hatfield, Martha Maloney, Callum Burn, Shaniya Hira, Molly Hanly, Che Tligui, Jesse Dunbar, Mira Edirisingha, Thomas Donnan, Niamh Keller, Laura Banks, Sol Taibi