A MIDSUMMER Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most loved and most performed plays is to be performed outside at Lewes Castle.
The event will run for three nights from August 20-23.
You are invited to arrive with picnics from 6.30pm and the curtain will go up at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10 with concessions at £8.
Call the box office on 01273 777748.
The event has be
en organised by Brighton Little Theatre.
At the outset it has all the ingredients of tragedy – an overbearing father, rebellious lovers, jealousy and the betrayal of love.
All this is introduced against a background of war and domination.
However, once we remove from the confines of Athens the magical forest of Oberon and Titania takes over (though even here there is discord and disharmony at first) and the human quarrels and tempestuous emotions are slowly resolved though the offices of the fairy world.
In another part of the wood a group of amateur actors rehearse a play to be performed at the Duke's wedding, and again the fairy and human worlds collide with hilarious consequences.
This production seeks to explore the intertwining of the human and fairy worlds and the group uses physical theatre to portray this as fairies become bushes or trees through which the lovers must quarrel and struggle.
The whole action of the play draws the audience inexorably to reconciliation and the re-establishment of harmony in the temporal and spiritual worlds.
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