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 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.
Nicholas Hytner’s revels return with bawdy, uninhibited mischief
8 / 10
Rules of gravity are forgotten here. Led by David Moorst’s spiky, spidery Puck, who reclaims his role from the original production, the disco-ready fairies barely touch the ground, gambolling instead across bedframes and dangling effortlessly from loops of aerial silks. Their astonishing acrobatics have echoes of the 1970 Peter Brook production of this play, albeit with more brazenly bisexual energy, which sweeps over the show like confetti. In the lovers’ clamorous scene of misunderstandings, Puck amuses himself by floating above them, swivelling the direction of their affections like spinning tops.
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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 |
Broadway |
| 1932 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1954 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1956 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1967 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 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 |
Off-Broadway |
| 1991 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 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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