Dash Arts - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- By:
- William Shakespeare
- Management:
- Roger Chapman, Matthew Byam Shaw and Act Productions by arrangement with The Roundhouse present The Dash Arts
- Cast:
- Ajay Kumar, Archana Ramaswamy, P R Jijoy, J Jayakumar, Yuki Ellias, Prasanna Mahagamage, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Shanaya Rafaat, Ashwatthama J D, Joy Fernandes, Joyraj Battacharya, T Gopalakrishnan, Umesh Jagtap, Jitu Shastri, Faezeh Jalali, M Palani, D Padakumar, Tapan Das, Dharminder Pawar, Lakhan Pawar/Ram Pawar
- Director:
- Tim Supple
- Design:
- Sumant Jayakrishan, also costume
- Sound:
- Nick Lidster
- Lighting:
- Zuleikha Chaudhari
- Choreography:
- D Padmakumar and M Palani
- Musical direction:
- Devissaro
- Run time:
- 2hrs 30mins
Production information can change over the run of the show.
India is a diverse, multi-faceted nation with no less than 15 official languages. It seems fitting then, that Tim Supple's production of the most frequently performed Shakespeare play of South East Asia, born of Adishakti, Pondicherry, should be performed from a polyglot script combining English, Tamil, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Sanskrit. Actors, dancers and musicians come from all over India, trained in their country's theatrical classical and folk traditions...
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