Sport for Jove summer season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

In the heat of the shortest night of the year, young lovers and work-a-day dreamers plunge into a world between sleep and waking, where everything seems double. Sport for Jove always treats its outdoor summer season as the core of its artistic vision, so this production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Susanna Dowling, is a perfect fit. Shakespeare, with typical theatrical mastery, shows us just what goes on when all hell breaks loose in the woods.

One of Shakespeare’s truly essential works, ‘Dream’, like every fairy-story, warns us that family, love and friendship are fragile – when parents are selfish, their children break the rules; when love rears its head, friendships are forgotten; and that’s just the mortal world. The Fairy Kingdom’s war over a mortal child has turned the entire “mazed world” upside down!

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Come and let yourself be amazed by this wonderful play and become witness of how Shakespeare’s passionate Midsummer Night’s Dream becomes alive in the woods.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed in repertory with Arthur Miller’s The Crucible; throughout December the venue will be Bella Vista Farm Park for the Sydney Hills Shakespeare in the Park Festival, then through January at the Leura Shakespeare Festival.

What: Sport for Jove’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Crucible 

When: 05 December 2014 to 25 January 2015

Where: Baulkham Hills and Leura