A Midsummer Night’s Dream
On the Summer Solstice, Saturday 21 June – plus an extra performance on Friday 20 June
To help raise funds for the Food Forest Project’s new community farm in Wedmore, we put on a special performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream outdoors in the beautiful grounds of the farm. The farm grows free fresh food for local food banks, as well as hosting social and environmental programmes and much more. You can find out all about the farm at their website https://www.wedmorevillagefarm.co.uk
Bottom, Titania, Puck and the Fairies
The theme of the play is love. Love aspiring to and consummated in marriage. A rather humdrum and overworked theme in literature? A bit boring, even? So, what does the greatest playwright the world has ever known do with such a theme? He turns it into anarchic, farcical fun, of course, sprinkled with his usual genius for poetic dialogue.
On Midsummer’s Night, by the light of a mystical moon, four rebellious young lovers, a band of horny-handed artisans turned ambitious amateur performers, and a feuding Fairy King and Queen, all cross paths in a riotously enchanted forest. When Oberon, the Fairy King orders Puck, his mischief-making hobgoblin, to cast spells on his rebellious Queen, Titania, and also on the four young lovers, he sets in train a magic mayhem.
All hell breaks loose as the natural and the supernatural are turned upside down and inside out; the forest’s new inhabitants are in for a wild and unsettling night of love, jealousy and utter confusion… and will the artisans succeed in putting on their amateur production at the wedding of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta, or will it end up as a complete farce?
In response to popular demand we added an extra performance. On Midsummer’s Day there was one in the afternoon and one in the early evening. On the day before, Friday 20 June, there was also an evening performance. The action took place on the Farm’s brand new stage.
Our plans for Autumn 2025
Hot news! In November we are planning a Murder Mystery Evening with a sumptuous meal. It will be at Wedmore Village Hall and the dates will be:
- Saturday 22nd November
- Saturday 29th November
We expect tickets to sell very fast and priority will be given to supporters on our mailing list.