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Eleanor Rhode directs a modern version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starring Mathew Baynton of Horrible Histories and Ghosts fame as Bottom, the fool who becomes one of several victims of fairy mischief. But, in a delightful twist, the star of the show is Puck, who was played by Premi Tamang due to the indisposition of Rosie Sheehy. ....
Over the last few years, British theatre has gone crazy for special effects: Stranger Things: The First Shadow and The Time Traveller’s Wife are just two recent West End shows where magic is a big part of the draw. That trend finds an appropriate home in this new RSC production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play whose fairies and dreamlike sequences should prove fertile ground for illusion director John Bulleid – who also worked on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – to work his magic. ....