The course of true love never did run smooth.
Based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frederick Aston's The Dream has long been seen as an essential part of the Royal Ballet's repertoire. Created in 1964 as part of the celebrations commemorating The Bard's 400th birthday, it perfectly captures the high-sprits and enchanting humour of the magical wood ruled by the mischievous denizens of the fairy realm.
Ill met by moonlight
Long ago, in the woods outside Athens, there exisited a pair of beautiful and proud fairy rulers. After a fall out over a servant, King Oberon ruthlessly plots revenge on his errant Queen, Titania. With the help of his man Puck, he develops a love potion to drop on her eyelids, so as when she wakes, she will fall hopelessly in love with the first thing she sets eyes on. In this case it is the unlickly Nick Bottom, a lost workman who's already met with fairy ire...
In another part of the forest, 4 mortal lovers argue their hearts, and see no way out of their quarrel, even more so when Puck gets involved!
A wildly entertaining classic, this hilarious meditiation on love in idleness, prepare to fall in love with The Dream all over again in this wonderful adapatation.