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A Midsummer Night's Dream at Brighton Open Air Theatre

Dates: 29/06/2022- 02/07/2022

📍 Theatre:
Brighton Open Air Theatre


Brighton Open Air Theatre, Dyke Rd, Hove BN3 6EH
Brighton,

Tickets: £15/£12.50


The course of true love never did run smooth. The Fairy Kingdom is at War. Oberon and Titanias marital mayhem unleashes chaos on four young lovers with disastrous and hilarious consequences. In another part of the forest, a troupe of aspiring actors prepare for the most important night of their lives a command performance before the Duke and Duchess. As the King and Queen of the Fairy Kingdom become entwined with the human world, a night of madness, mayhem, magic, love, hilarity ensues (dont forget the donkey!) The Dukes Theatre Company returns after their critically acclaimed inaugural adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. This new, ambitious production for Summer 2022, with live music, stunning design and theatrical magic, promises to delight audiences with Shakespeares most comic and celebrated fairy tale.

Cast and Creative Team for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Brighton Open Air Theatre

Cast

Joanna Bending
Hippolyta, Helena & Peter Quince
Training - RADA Theatre includes: 1984 and The Odyssey (US Tour), Imaginationship (Finborough Theatre), Shadows Of The Evening (Bridewell Theatre), Waiting For God (National Tour), Outings (Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue), The Sound of Murder (National Tour), Kingmaker (Arts Theatre and St James Theatre), Macbeth (U.S. Tour), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre), Under The Mulberry Tree (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh), Mountain Language (Royal Court), Phallacy (Kings Head Theatre), Two Women For One Ghost (Regents Park), Hand Over Fist – Stage Best Solo Performance Nomination, Boris: World King, Kingmaker, Trolling, Sex Lives of Others (all for Pleasance, Edinburgh), Blithe Spirit, Intimate Exchanges (Frinton), The Master and Margarita (National Theatre Studio) Television includes: Casualty, Eastenders, Doctors, Holby City, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Angel of Death, Love Soup (all for the BBC); PMTV (Paramount Comedy); The Bill (Talkback Thames); Coronation Street (ITV) Film includes: To The Grave; Second Coming; Tick Tock Lullaby; The Holiday. Joanna has recorded numerous audio-books, and is a very keen chef!
Daniel Crespin
Theseus & Oberon
Training - LAMDA Theatre includes: Hansel & Gretel (Insane Root), Celestial Ark (Arcola), Macbeth (Young Shakespeare Company), Romeo & Juliet (UK/European Tour), These words that'll linger like ghosts till the day i drop down dead (Riverside Studios), Emerge Sessions (Bush Theatre), Ulster American (Linbury Theatre), Void (Rondo Theatre/Edinburgh Festival), Scrooge the Musical (UK Tour). TV & Commercial includes: The Outlaws (BBC/Amazon Studios), Jutland (Channel 4), Coca-Cola, Mansion Bet. Daniel has also worked extensively as a voiceover actor, primarily in commercials, video games and audiobooks, and is a musician and writer.
Hayley Doherty
Hermia & Titania
Training - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing, Comedy of Errors and Macbeth (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Moonlight & Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse), Living Quarters (Tobacco Factory), The Snow Queen and Tom’s Midnight Garden (Theatre by the Lake), A Fortunate Man, Unforgettable and Macbeth (New Perspectives), A Fine Bright Day Today (New Vic), The Endings and XY (Theatre 503), Spunk (The Arcola) and Paradise Lost (Bristol Old Vic Co.) Later this year, Hayley will be performing in A Seventh Man in Cologne. TV/Film includes: Outlander, Peaky Blinders, Coronation Street, Death Comes to Pemberley, Silent Witness, Superspreader and Dirty God. Hayley has recorded numerous BBC radio dramas including Wuthering Heights and Dixon of Dock Green as well as readings for Radio 4’s Poetry Please and Something Understood. Hayley is the vocalist in Hayley’s Little Big Band, a jazz/blues trio. She has lived on a narrowboat, exploring the waterways for the last 10 years and also drives a community boat, taking passengers on trips along the canal. She's very excited to be joining The Dukes Theatre Company this season!
Chris Donnelly
Bottom & Egeus
Training - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Theatre includes: Reasons to Stay Alive, (English Touring Theatre, adapted for stage by April de Angelis), Horst in Bent, Barry Hardwick in Darkness Darkness, Skullery in Road, Richard in The Country, Billy in Billy Liar, Kabe in One Flea Spare Chris has had the pleasure of being an actor for twenty-five years, playing a wide array of roles in television, on stage and on radio. Chris has toured nationally and internationally and is very proud to have been part of Andrew Hilton’s highly acclaimed, award- winning Shakespeare At the Tobacco Factory theatre company ensemble since its inception in 2000, with whom he has played many roles. These include Iago in Othello, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Stephano in The Tempest, Pompey in Measure for Measure, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, Puck and Bottom in two productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lollio in Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling and Pistol in Henry V TV includes: No Offence, Fat Friends, Silent Witness, Wire In The Blood, The Musketeers, The Derren Brown show, Vital Signs, Casualty, Wycliffe and the character of Damion Spinks in Eastenders. He has also performed in upward of thirty radio plays for BBC Rradio 4.
Finnbar Hayman
Lysander & Philostrate
Training - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Theatre whilst training: Josh in Ocra, (Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio) Karl/Steve in Clybourne Park (Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio), Alastair Ryle in Posh (Criterion Thetare), Tom Tulliver/ Bob Jakin / Wakem,The Mill on the Floss (BOVTS West Coutry Tour) Beowulf, Beowulf (BOVTS TIE Tour) Angel Gabriel, The Christmas Nativity (BOVTS Nativity Tour) Nil, Philistines (Bristol Old Vic) Eddie/Marco, A View from the Bridge (Bristol Old Vic), Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic), Jack. The Importance Of Being Earnest (Bristol Old Vic), Searchwell/Cheatall, The Innocent Mistress (Bristol Old Vic), M, Lungs (Bristol Old Vic) Short fims include – Simon, Handover (NFTS)
Ben Simon
Puck & Demetrius
Training – Oxford School of Speech and Drama Theatre includes: Sebastian/Musician/Music Captain (Tempest - Wildcard Theatre/ Pleasance Theatre), Jamie (Catch of the Day - Original Cast - UK & Ireland Tour - Red Fox Theatre), Mercutio and Caplulet (Romeo and Juliet - The Dukes Theatre Company), Squire Trelawny/Blind Pew (Treasure Island - Bolton Octagon), Paul (Electrolyte - Wildcard Theatre - Original Cast - UK Tour), Henry V (Rose Playhouse), Dunsinane (RSC/National Theatre of Scotland). As Musical director and composer - “Lilith, Confessions of a Demon Goddess” (Damsel Productions), Evelyn (Wildcard Theatre). Ben is also a musician and composer, and is a co-founder of Red Fox Theatre. He is delighted to be back with The Duke’s Theatre Company for the second year.

Creative Team

Chris Donnelly
Director & Adaptation
Bobby Delaney
Creative Producer

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