Ein Sommernachtstraum

In the organizer's words:

A Midsummer Night's Dream

By William Shakespeare

About the play

In Athens, true love has a hard time - and no wonder: their ruler Theseus has brought his bride Hippolyta as spoils of war and is forcing her to marry. Hermia is also to be forced into marriage - to Demetrius. But Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, she loves Lysander and flees with him into the forest at night. But Demetrius is hot on their heels, although someone is also hot on his heels. Helena, who has long adored him in vain. But what good can come of this nocturnal forest, whose ruler, the fairy king Oberon, is hopelessly at odds with his wife Titania - instead of love, there is only jealousy between them!
Shakespeare has transformed this multiple love confusion into an enchanting comedy in which humor and longing dreams merge magically.
The drama about the four lovers, who are driven into the woods at night by the quarrelling fairy king and queen, has already been restaged three times by the bremer shakespeare company in recent decades.

With Patricia Benecke ("The Winter's Tale", "The Strange Case of Prudencia Hart") as director, she is bringing the popular dream comedy back to the stage with just four actors. With simple props and a few musical instruments, the quartet throws themselves into the fast-paced, twisting changes of characters and situations under the motto "little material, but all the more imagination" and draws the audience into Shakespeare's summer night worlds of light and shadow.

Production in two versions

This production is available in German and English versions. The morning performances are aimed particularly at school classes.

Cast

In a version for four actors.

Play version: Patricia Benecke, Simon Elias.
Director: Patricia Benecke.
Stage/costumes: Rike Schimitschek.
Music: Simon Slater.
With: Svea Auerbach, Simon Elias, Tim Lee, Magdalena Julia Simmel.

Duration: 2:20 incl. intermission

Price information:

normal: 27€ reduced: 15€ Students of the University, HS and HfK Bremen and HKS Ottersberg: Free admission