A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Although it’s provided a steady pipeline of new plays – including the all conquering ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ – the RSC hasn’t transferred a single Shakespeare to London since 2019. The pandemic and the success of ‘Totoro’ can reasonably be blamed for that. But it’s a treat to have it back with the Bard: the Globe is great but its productions are neccessarily somewhat rough and ready; the RSC offers a slicker, bigger budget take on Shakespeare and it’s great to get both. Transferring to the Barbican straight after Emma Rice’s acclaimed ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’, Eleanor Rhodes’s production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was praised for its surreal freshness when it debuted in Stratford back in February. Casting for this transfer is TBC.