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Ripon Theatre Festival – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jun 26 - 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm
| £17.50Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals bumble into the forest to rehearse a play.
Shakespeare’s timeless comic masterpiece explores every colour in the spectrum of love, from arranged marriage to elopement, from infatuation to hatred, from chivalric devotion to raw sex. Add to this bawdy mix a heady brew of confusion, magic and mischief, and you have the most perfectly frothy comedy for a moonlit summer evening.
Presented by Illyria.
Running time approximately 2hrs 20 mins, including a 20 minute interval.
Suitable for ages 5+
Sponsored by Elstob & Elstob Auctioneers.
Gates open from 5.30pm.
Please bring your own rug or folding chairs (but no umbrellas), picnics welcome. Performance continues regardless of weather.