A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School
  

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo

14 - 22 August
Time: 7.00pm
Matinee: Tues 18th 12.30pm and Sat 22 August 2.00pm
Venue: Te Whaea Theatre, Te Whaea Dance and Drama Centre
11 Hutchison Rd, Newtown, Wellington

Ticket Price: $15/$10

Come into an erotic underworld of circus and wantonness; of transformation and desire in a world where the boundaries of reality and imagination merge into an arena you might not have expected …

Second year actors and fourth year designers collaborate with costume and technical students to create a spectacular spectacle that explores the darkness and deep urges at the heart of this classic piece of Shakespeare.

Toi Whakaari welcomes one of the UK’s leading Afro-Caribbean theatre practitioners, actress and director Josette Bushell-Mingo (OBE) fresh from the RSC to direct Shakespeare’s tale of love, magic and perception with our next generation of theatre makers.

Josette’s vision of this production is a world of transformation, eroticism and sensuality set in the very controlled yet dangerous area of the circus.  Stilt walking, fire breathing, rope walking and acrobatics are currently being mastered by our second year students in preparation for the show.
 
Josette is currently Artistic Director of The Silent Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden; the Artistic Director of Push, an organisation set up to promote and develop Black British Theatre and is an Associate Artist of The Almeida Theatre, London.
 

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