A midsummer night’s dream

Discover enchanting ideas and inspiration inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream. Create your own magical world with these stunning ideas and bring the beauty of Shakespeare's classic to life.
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Shakespeare's Titania: from Gwendoline Christie to Judi Dench – in pictures

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 as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Old Vic, 1937

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…

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