The Reunion | Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sue MacGregor reunites cast and creatives to explore how director Peter Brook's revolutionary A Midsummer Night's Dream at the RSC in 1970 changed theatre and Shakespeare forever.
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- Type: Factual, Plays
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 41'35''
- Broadcast date: 2015
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
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Front Row | A Midsummer Night's Dream
Screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce and critic Helen Nugent review the first Shakespeare production at the new Shakespeare North theatre in Prescot, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Prefaces to Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream
The actress, Frances De La Tour, who played Helena in Peter Brook's 1970 production for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, gives her personal view of A Midsummer Night's Dream.