Vidar Hjardeng MBE - RSC A Midsummer Night’s Dream, AD Theatre Review
Season 2, Episode 416, Mar 22, 03:00 PM
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjardeng MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for the next in his regular Connect Radio theatre reviews.
This week the lines between reality and illusion start to blur in a play within a play as Vidar reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current production of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream with creative audio description voiced by the Actors at every performance, Directed by Ben Wilson.
About A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
On Midsummer’s Night, the real and fairy worlds collide.
Four young lovers, faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest. Nearby, a group of amateur actors rehearse a play to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding.
As these mere mortals cross paths with a warring fairy King and Queen, chaos reigns in the natural world. The lines between reality and illusion start to blur and no-one but mischievous Puck knows what is true and what is magic.
Let Shakespeare’s captivating comedy transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. Director Eleanor Rhode (King John) returns to the RSC with a Dream that is both epic and intimate, and completely full of wonder.
This production includes creative audio description, which is performed live and in character by the cast, at every performance from press night to the end of the run on 30 March 2024. Audiences will b able to access audio description and an additional soundscape through headsets.
For more about the RSC’s current production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream including details about the immersive audio description do visit the following pages of the RSC website - https://www.rsc.org.uk/a-midsummer-nights-dream/
This week the lines between reality and illusion start to blur in a play within a play as Vidar reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current production of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream with creative audio description voiced by the Actors at every performance, Directed by Ben Wilson.
About A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
On Midsummer’s Night, the real and fairy worlds collide.
Four young lovers, faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest. Nearby, a group of amateur actors rehearse a play to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding.
As these mere mortals cross paths with a warring fairy King and Queen, chaos reigns in the natural world. The lines between reality and illusion start to blur and no-one but mischievous Puck knows what is true and what is magic.
Let Shakespeare’s captivating comedy transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. Director Eleanor Rhode (King John) returns to the RSC with a Dream that is both epic and intimate, and completely full of wonder.
This production includes creative audio description, which is performed live and in character by the cast, at every performance from press night to the end of the run on 30 March 2024. Audiences will b able to access audio description and an additional soundscape through headsets.
For more about the RSC’s current production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream including details about the immersive audio description do visit the following pages of the RSC website - https://www.rsc.org.uk/a-midsummer-nights-dream/