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Shakespeare in the Garden

MAPPERTON AND CASTLE THEATRE COMPANY PROUDLY PRESENTS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Sunday 16th July 2023, a matinee at 2pm and evening performance at 6:30 pm.

Tickets:
£15 per adult
£12 concessions

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Castle Theatre Company is delighted to announce its 2023 touring production of one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. When a quest for true love is thwarted by a hilarious series of enchantments-gone-wrong from a mystical fairy world, this charming play explores one hysterical night of chaos.
‘Hermia and Lysander are in love, and flee to the forest pursued by Demetrius, intent on marrying Hermia, and Helena, intent on loving Demetrius. Meanwhile, in the warring fairy world, Puck and Oberon hatch a plan to trick Queen Titania into loving a beast, and Puck seizes this opportunity to cause chaos when he encounters a gang of bumbling mechanicals rehearsing a play. As the three hilarious plots collide with the fairy Queen doting on a bewildered ass-headed man and the lovers blindly chasing each other around the forest, will the farcical madness of this summer’s night ever end? 

 

CASTLE THEATRE COMPANY

Castle Theatre Company is one of the oldest performing arts groups at Durham University, and for over four decades have taken an annual summer Shakespeare tour around the south of England and the USA, performing classic comedies on the lawns of stately homes, gardens, and abbeys. The company is renowned for its high standard of performance, offering a full-length Shakespeare comedy that is suitable for all the family. 2022’s touring production of The Comedy of Errors was performed to sold-out audiences around the south of England.

‘It is productions like this which give Durham Student Theatre its excellent reputation – five stars!’ – Palatinate on Love’s Labour’s Lost (2019)

‘Shakespearean comedy that will really have you laughing from side to side’ – e Bubble on Twelfth Night (2018).

‘A wonderfully youthful, vigorous production – with some stand out performances. Please bring CTC back next year, they’re brilliant.’ – audience at the Buckingham Literary Festival, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017).

‘The outstanding cast and creative team provided a delightful afternoon of theatre that should not be missed.’ – First Night on Much Ado About Nothing (2016).

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