A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts – between city and country, reason and imagination, love and infatuation.

3 CDs | Running Time: 2h 19m | ISBN: 978–962–634–150–6 | Cat. no.: NA315012 | RRP: £13.99RRP:£13.99 GBPSRP: US $ 22.98RRP:£13.99 GBP

CAST

Theseus, Duke of Athens – Jack Ellis
Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons – Karen Archer
Lysander, in love with Hermia – Benjamin Soames
Demetrius, suitor to Hermia – Jamie Glover
Hermia, in love with Lysander – Cathy Sara
Helena, in love with Demetrius – Emily Raymond
Oberon, King of the Fairies – Michael Maloney
Titania, Queen of the Fairies – Sarah Woodward
Puck, in the service of Oberon – Ian Hughes
Quince, a carpenter – John Moffatt
Bottom, a weaver – Warren Mitchell
Flute, a bellows-mender – Peter Kenny
Snout, a tinker – Don McCorkindale
Snug, a joiner/Egeus, father of Hermia – David Timson
Starveling, a tailor/Philostrate, Master of the Revels – John Rye
Peaseblossom, fairy attending on Titania – Emma Lindars
Cobweb, fairy attending on Titania – Sophie Nakhimoff
Moth, fairy attending on Titania – Laura Sheldon
Mustardseed, fairy attending on Titania – Dominic Kraemer
Fairy, in the service of Titania – Daisy Donovan

PODCAST

Speak the Speech...
In a talk given at the 2008 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, David Timson, director of four Naxos AudioBooks Shakespeare recordings and author of Shakespeare Stories, surveys the changing styles of Shakespeare performance through recordings starting with Henry Irving in the 1890s through to Kenneth Branagh in the twenty-first century.

Speak the Speech... (MP3, 58 min., 20 MB)
Accompanying notes (PDF, 120 KB)

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