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Theseus, Oberon Director Hippolyta, Titania Gwendoline Christie Production Designer Bunny Christie Philostrate, Puck David Moorst Costume Enjoy the show Hermia Isis Hainsworth Designer Christina Cunningham Helena Tessa Bonham Jones Movement Director Arlene Phillips Paul Adeyefa Grant Olding We hope you enjoy your National Theatre Please do let us know what you think Demetrius Composer Live screening. We make every attempt to through our channels listed below or Lysander Kit Young Lighting Designer Bruno Poet replicate the theatre experience as closely approach the cinema manager to share Egeus Kevin McMonagle Sound Designer Paul Arditti as possible for your enjoyment. your thoughts. Quince Felicity Montagu Bottom Hammed Animashaun Broadcast Team Flute Jermaine Freeman Snout Ami Metcalf Director For Screen Ross MacGibbon Connect with us Snug Jamie-Rose Monk Technical Starveling Francis Lovehall Producer Christopher C. Bretnall Peaseblossom Chipo Kureya Lighting Explore Never miss out Cobweb Jay Webb Consultant Gemma O’Sullivan Go behind the scenes of A Midsummer Get the latest news from Moth Charlotte Atkinson Sound Supervisor Conrad Fletcher Night’s Dream and learn more about how our straight Mustardseed Lennin Nelson-McClure Script Supervisor Claire Mathias broadcasts happen on our website. to your inbox. Bedbug Rachel Tolzman Understudy to Theseus, ntlive.com ntlive.com/signup Oberon and Egeus Adam Cunis Understudy to Hippolyta, Titania and Quince Philippa Quinn Join in Feedback Use #BridgeDream and be a Share your thoughts by taking our part of the conversation online. short online survey and enter into a prize draw to win £100. /ntlive ntlive.com/feedback Running time: 3 hours 10 minutes, @ntlive including one interval Introducing A Midsummer Night’s Dream Coming soon Find the next broadcast or screening near you at ntlive.com You’re about to watch Shakespeare’s This production was directed by funniest, most complicated, love story, Nicholas Hytner and builds on the packed with unexpected twists and success of his immersive staging of turns. For those who’ve seen the play , broadcast by National It’s 1988 and Tory politician Robin has before, you know the deal − donkey love Theatre Live in 2018. returned home to the idyllic Cotswold and lust in the forest. However, if you’re house he shares with his wife, Diana; experiencing A Midsummer Night’s In its original performances in the 1600s, a new play by Simon Woods the picture of a perfect marriage. But Dream for the very first time this evening, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was all is not as blissful as it seems. we’ve packed everything it might be presented in daylight on the simple a National Theatre production useful to know into the next 50 words… thrust stage of an Elizabethan directs Lindsay Duncan playhouse. Now, in 2019, you’ll witness (About Time) and A feuding fairy King and Queen of the the in become () in this witty forest cross paths with four runaway an immersive forest – a dream world and devastating portrait of the governing class. lovers and a troupe of actors trying of flying fairies and moonlight revels. to rehearse a play. As their dispute HHHH grows, the magical royal couple meddle And you’ll have the best seat in the ‘Touching and illuminating all at once.’ with mortal lives leading to love house. Our state-of-the-art filming triangles, mistaken identities and techniques are tailored specifically to The Times transformations… with hilarious, but each play. From close-ups that capture dark consequences. every flicker of emotion, to sweeping wide shots of the action. We hope you Mathew Warchus directs enjoy the show. (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s comedy . Bridge Theatre National Theatre Live Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis by Noël Coward as his many and various relationships from The Bridge Theatre was founded National Theatre Live distributes world- compete for his attention; star actor by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr class theatre straight from stages across Garry Essendine’s life is a chaotic on leaving the National Theatre after the United Kingdom to cinema screens whirlwind of love, sex, panic and 12 years. around the world. soul-searching.

Its 900-seat adaptable auditorium Working with the best of British theatre HHHHH is designed to answer the needs companies and producers, we ‘A treat of a production.’ of contemporary audiences and theatre- simultaneously broadcast live theatre Financial Times makers and is capable of responding shows to cinemas in the UK, Europe toshows with different formats (end-on, and sometimes North America, as well as thrust and promenade). capturing the live performance for encore screenings in other territories. It was the first wholly new theatre of scale to be added to London’s Our live broadcasts and screenings have commercial theatre sector in 80 years. been seen by over 9 million people in The Bridge was designed by Steve 2,500 cinemas in 65 countries since we Tompkins and Roger Watts of Haworth launched in 2009. Tompkins Architects (winner of the 2014 Stirling Prize). ntlive.com facebook/theatrelive bridgetheatre.co.uk @ntlive facebook/bridgetheatrelondon @_bridgetheatre