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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    11 February - 17 March 2012

Information

Evenings: 7.30pm
8pm on 02, 09 & 16 Mar

The performance on 16 Feb will start at 7pm
Matinees: 22 & 28 Feb & 01, 06, 08 & 14 Mar 1.30pm
25 Feb & 17 Mar 2.30pm
Other Information: Free First Night: 11 Feb (free tickets for people who live or work in Hammersmith & Fulham)

FREE post-show Q&A 23 & 28 Feb & 08 Mar 7.30pm

Friends Performances: 28 Feb & 08 Mar 7.30pm, 17 Mar 2.30pm
Tickets: £12.50 Nights:
13 - 17 Feb & mid-week matinees - all tickets £12.50

£12.50 - £35
Ages: 11+
Running time: 90 minutes

Synopsis

Production key info / links

‘Real delight… quite brilliant.’
***** Independent on Sunday

‘Every minute of every scene crackles with care and invention.’
**** Time Out, Critics’ Choice

‘Exploding the conventions of the form and remaking them in dazzling new shapes.’
**** Metro

'A spellbinder.' **** Sunday Times

‘Joyously unorthodox… juicily original… You have to see it for yourself.’
**** Evening Standard

‘Miraculously captures the madness at the heart of Shakespeare's comedy.’
**** Guardian

‘This marvellously irreverent production of Shakespeare's great comedy is pure bliss.’
**** Daily Telegraph

'Filter's cunningly clever A Midsummer Night's Dream @LyricHammer is laugh out loud bliss but so true to the play too.'
@LynGardner

'What a terrific show. AMSND by @filtertheatre @LyricHammer is a joy to behold. Not just great Shakespeare, great theatre full stop. See it.'
@NigelMunson

You can read more tweets by clicking here.

Following the success of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, Filter return to collaborate with Sean Holmes to remix and rework Shakespeare’s classic play.

Featuring original music from members of the London Snorkelling Team, this tale of young lovers and warring fairies is given a unique and irreverent twist.

In Conversation, 27 Feb 6pm
Join Artistic Associate Simon Stephens as he chats to the creative forces behind A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tickets just £3.