A Midsummer Nights Dream - RSC , Dash Arts & The British Council
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RSC, Dash Arts & The British Council
A Midsummer Nights Dream - RSC , Dash Arts & The British Council
13th June 200 1pm - 3pm
Venue: Winterbourne Gardens , University Of Birmingham.
This is a free event for the school pupils involved in the Dreamworlds project
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“There are so many moments of visual delight, it is breathtaking. An awesome production that fills every dark chink and bright moment of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” (The Hindu)
This performance is an important ingredient in RSC Learning Dreamworlds project, which is currently taking place in Schools in Birmingham. 250 pupils from four different schools across Birmingham are involved in this breathtaking project spanning two continents. Dreamworlds is a playwriting project aimed at Year 8, 10 and 11 students and usesw A Midsummer Nights Dream’s characters , themes and structure as a stimulus for the creative playwriting of the young people involved.
Auditioning over 800 actors, dancers, martial arts experts, musicians and street acrobats from across India and Sri Lanka was the starting point for Tim Supple’s visionary production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – a co-production between Dash Arts and the British Council.
Following two months of rehearsals in Southern India and a highly acclaimed tour of India’s major cities, the 23 strong cast and creative team will arrive in the UK next month to perform their version of Dream as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival.
The play offers a faithful translation of Shakespeare’s original text and is performed in a mixture of seven languages: Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Sinhalese and English.
