A Midsummer Night's Dream
Closing: August 20, 2025A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2025 West End History , Info & More
Bridge Theatre
One Tower Bridge London SE1 2SD
Return to the forest this summer – a dream world of flying fairies, contagious fogs and moonlight revels. The seating is wrapped around the action while the immersive tickets allow the story to be followed on foot.
Following its critically-acclaimed run in 2019, the Bridge Theatre’s five-star production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns for a limited run.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2025 - West End Cast
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This joyful, acrobatic comedy is the party of the summer
8 / 10
The production loses some momentum in the scenes with the lovers, who are pleasant but largely two-dimensional. But the Rude Mechanicals, led by Felicity Montagu’s Mistress Quince as a long-suffering adult education facilitator, present a truly uproarious staging of Pyramus and Thisbe that’s also touching in its dedication to teamwork, however chaotic. Emmanuel Akwafo is charming as Bottom, dressed in a yellow boilersuit, who is both innocent and deeply serious about his art (“It’s in the round!” he hisses at the Wall). It’s a play in which the whimsical and the serious intertwine and joy prevails. Topped off with a finale filled with a group dance and giant moon-like beach balls floating over the pit, it’s the best party of the summer.
This is still the finest A Midsummer Night’s Dream I have ever seen
10 / 10
The space works like some hallucinogenic kaleidoscope; locations emerge through the floor and then, in the twinkling of an eye, submerge. Some of the actors are more like stunt-artists than others – Moorst bursting up through, and down into, a mattress, say, or sardonically delivering his lines upside down; the fairies flying and tumbling overhead on sheet ropes. But all must rise to the occasion of split-second timing. Wit and lyricism run in tandem with physical prowess. Whether it be an insightful emphasis or a giggle-making ad-lib – not a moment of the evening is slack.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream History
Other Productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream
| 1826 | Broadway |
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| 1903 | Broadway |
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| 1906 | Broadway |
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| 1910 | Broadway |
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| 1915 | Broadway |
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| 1920 | Broadway |
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| 1927 | Broadway |
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| 1932 | Broadway |
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| 1954 | Broadway |
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| 1956 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1967 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1971 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1975 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1977 | Off-Broadway |
Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway |
| 1981 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1982 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1987 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1991 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1994 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1996 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2007 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2012 | Off-Broadway |
Classic Stage Company Production Off-Broadway |
| 2012 | West End |
Open Air Theater Production West End |
| 2013 | West End |
Michael Grandage Company Production West End |
| 2013 | Off-Broadway |
Theater for a New Audience Production Off-Broadway |
| 2015 | Off-Broadway |
Pearl Theatre Company Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 2017 | Off-Broadway |
Shakespeare in the Park Revival Off-Broadway |
| 2019 | Off-Broadway |
Original Immersive Production Off-Broadway |
| 2020 | Off-Broadway |
Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 2025 | West End |
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| 2026 | West End |
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