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BrumHour saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the inviteof The RSC.
For Brum Radio’s Interval Theatre, Kaireece Denton spoke about making his RSC debut in this production. Listen below:
By Dave Massey
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The RSC, The Other Place: Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐”A fun family production”
Co-directed by Rachel Bagshaw and Robin Belfield, edited by Robin Belfield
The Fairies are playing with the love lives of the mortals Lysander (Kaireece Denton) and Hermia (Scout Worsley) around Athens. Elsewhere, Quince (also Scout Worsley) is putting on a play for Hippolyta (Amelia Donkor) and Theseus (Chris Jared). Meanwhile, Bottom (Emmy Stonelake) appears to have grown some donkey ears under another spell.
This is an excellent cast and very fun and playful. Emmy Stonelake steals the show as Bottom and Egeus. Joséphine Fransilja-Brookman is a lot of fun as Puck.
The set feels quite traditional at first glance, a rear wall with two angled walls heading towards the audience. It looks to be made of plywood and throughout the performance becomes a huge projection screen for the dialogue of the play and other story elements, including a storm of fairie dust.
This is an eighty-five minute family production with no interval, and as a summer production it is very well suited to its daytime and early evening performances. There is something very dreamy about A Midsummer Night’s Dream and this production leans into the mystical elements.
A fun family production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is at The RSC: The Other Place until 30th August 2026. Book tickets here: rsc.org.uk/a-midsummer-nights-dream.
