A midsummer night's dream

“Hermia, Helena and Hippolyta from Shakespeare’s “A midsummer night's dream”

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Game of Thrones star Christie is the latest actor to be cast as the fairy queen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is coming to the Bridge theatre in London etc etc. Here are some of the other top Titanias in whose footsteps she follows

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Vivien Leigh in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, 1938. This was Tyrone Guthrie's production at the Old Vic starring Vivien as Titania the faerie queen, Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Ralph Richardson as Bottom. Costumes by the fabulous Oliver Messel with music by Felix Mendelssohn.

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The 1937 Christmas production was directed by Tyrone Guthrie, with sets and costumes by Oliver Messel. Shakespeare's play was presented as an affectionate Victorian pastiche, and included large choruses of muslin-clad fairies flying in on wires. Mendelssohn's famous incidental music was much in evidence, with choreography by Ninette de Valois. Vivien Leigh's Oberon was played by Robert Helpmann, Ralph Richardson played Bottom, and Gordon Miller, Puck. *** Titania's fairy crown, designed by…