Full Length Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream - a podcast by BBC Radio 3

The play revolves around the adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The story takes place in Midsummer and is a complex farce featuring Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius. Their romantic intrigues are confused and complicated still further by entering the forest where Oberon King of the fairies and his queen Titania, preside. Puck (or Robin Goodfellow) is a major character who is full of mischief and tricks. Other visitors to the enchanted forest include Bottom, the Weaver and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince and Flute, the amateur dramatists who want to rehearse their terrible but hilarious version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe.

Recorded on location in 22 acres of Sussex woodland, this production has an all-star cast.Director: Celia de Wolff

Music by Stephanie NunnTitania ..... Lesley Sharp
Oberon ..... Toby StephensPeter Quince ..... Robert Pugh
Nick Bottom ..... Roger AllamPuck ..... Freddie Fox
Theseus ..... Nicholas FarrellHippolyta ..... Emma Fielding
Lysander ..... Joseph TimmsDemetrius ..... Ferdinand Kingsley
Hermia ..... Emerald O'HanrahanHelena ..... Anna Madeley
Egeus / Starveling ..... David CollingsPhilostrate / Snug ..... Nicholas Boulton
Fairy ..... Sara MarklandFrancis Flute ..... Sam Alexander
Tom Snout ..... Sam DalePeaseblossom ..... Jessica Sian
Cobweb ..... Jay CarterMoth ..... Tressa Brooks
Mustardseed ..... Stuart Walker.

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