Moon Fool - Ill Met by Moonlight
By eliminating outside influences and extracting just the main players from the fairy kingdom, Moon Fool and Trestle Touring have created a considered focus within A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Christopher Sivertsen (Oberon) and Anna-Helena McLean (Titania) in Moon Fool at Trestle Arts Base Photo: Tristram Kenton
They construct an ethereal tangibility in which the characters of Oberon, Titania and Puck can be explored more fully and witnessed wholly within their world. In doing so, the Fairy King and Queen indulge in self-obsession with a passion and depth that is rarely, if ever, uncovered in a full production of the Dream.
The physicality of performance is powerfully executed by both Anna-Helena McLean and Christopher Sivertsen, with McLean expressing Titania’s mental strength and scheming sexuality with clarity and Sivertsen giving Oberon a gentle yet potent empowerment over the Fairy Kingdom.
Peter Swaffer-Reynolds takes on the role of master of ceremonies as Puck. As he literally sets the stage for the ritualistic floor show which is about to take place, his crackly voice and voyeuristic insight contain a sense of sinister foreboding and comic mockery as he knowledgably allows his masters to take centre stage.
Ian Morgan has been creatively resourceful in his strong direction of the production and the importance of music and movement is paramount in this devised piece of drama.
Production information
- By:
- Ian Morgan, who also directs
- Management:
- Trestle Theatre Company and Moon Fool
- Cast:
- Anna-Helena McLean, Christopher Sivertsen, Peter Swaffer-Reynolds
- Design:
- Katherina Radeva
- Lighting:
- Paul Colley
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Run sheet
- Trestle Arts Base St Albans
- February 4 2010
- South Hill Park Arts Centre Bracknell
- February 5 2010
- Theatre by the Lake Keswick
- February 9 2010
- Cut Halesworth
- February 11 2010
- Merlin Frome
- February 13 2010
- Queen's Hall Arts Centre Hexham
- February 23 2010
- Arts Centre Darlington
- February 24 2010
- Chipping Norton Theatre Chipping Norton
- February 25 2010
- EM Forster Tonbridge
- February 26 2010
- Brewhouse Taunton
- March 9 2010
- Arts Centre Salisbury
- March 10 2010
- Cornerstone Arts Centre Didcot
- March 11 2010
- Mercury, Studio Colchester
- March 12-13 2010
- Guildhall Arts Centre Grantham
- March 17 2010
- Clocktower Croydon
- March 18 2010
- Artsdepot London
- March 25 2010
- Old Town Hall Hemel Hempstead
- March 26 2010
- Greenwich Theatre London
- April 17 2010
- Gulbenkian Canterbury
- March 7 2011
- Arcola, Studio 2 London
- March 13 2011
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