Synopsis
The earliest surviving television adaptation of Shakespeare's magical play, broadcast on 9 November 1958, in the BBC's Sunday-Night Theatre slot, starring Peter Sallis and Gillian Lynne.
A Summer in Dubrovnik
The 1956 Festival is remembered by five visitors in a film made by the BBC Television Film Unit in co-operation with Filmske Novosti , Belgrade. The film contains sequences from the following Festival Productions of 1956: Ero the Joker (Gotovac); The Devil in the Village (Lhotka); The Rape of Lucretia (Britten); A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet (Shakespeare); Othello (Verdi); Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe); Dubravka (Gundullc); Uncle Maroya (Drzic); a piano recital by Kendall Taylor and John Wright 's puppets.
Drama on 3 | Mendelssohn Weekend - A Midsummer Night's Dream: Part 2
A rare chance to watch Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it, in a recording from Middle Temple Hall. Tim Carroll talks about the production.