08/06/2025
FIVE DAYS UNTIL A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM RETURNS HOME TO WELWYN GARDEN CITY, 100 YEARS ON ✨🌙
Follow me and my incredible friends at the illustrious Barn Theatre as I take on the role of Lysander: a rebel and a bit of a poet! 🥰
Lysander joins his fellow Athenian court members for a very awkward engagement party, with Duke Theseus’ wife-to-be Hippolyta less than amicable with him. Things are no better for Lysander and his lover Hermia, with Hermia forced to either resign herself to an arranged marriage with Demetrius, or be put to death by law.
However, Lysander has seemingly the perfect plan: elope, far outside of Athens’s borders where they cannot be pursued. What seemed like the perfect plan quickly went sour as Lysander is subject to a divine prank, and a case of mistaken identity. The misapplication of a love herb by Fairy Spirit, Puck causes him to fall in love with Helena, Hermia’s best friend who has been relentlessly pursuing Demetrius. All four lovers are eventually caught up in a ludicrous scenario they cannot understand, and a fierce quarrel is inevitable. And this is far from the only chaos caused by the actions of Fairy King, Oberon.
Time is running out before sunrise: the day of Theseus’ wedding. Will Oberon mend his bridges with Titania? Can the Mechanicals save their play in time for the wedding? And, is there any hope to rescue Lysander and Hermia, Helena and Demetrius from the inexplicable crisis they find themselves in?
All will be revealed in this historical running of William Shakespeare’s Magnum Opus, directed by the fabulous Lou Wallace and Steve Thompson. Celebrating 100 years since this play was performed in The Dell in Welwyn Garden City, Barn newcomers meet Barn veterans to take you through three different worlds. With over 80% of tickets gone before we even begin, it will be an unmissable experience 🤩
Link in my bio for tickets. Or visit the Barn Theatre website. I hope to see you there!
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