University of Nottingham Malaysia
School of English
     
  

A Midsummer Night's Dream – 9 to 11 April 2015

Date(s)
9th - 11th April 2015
Description

MND-PicSchool of English, Malaysia Campus invites you to attend their version of the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Adapted gently to the Malaysian context, this play is a great romp for every Shakespeare fan, and even those who have never been exposed to Shakespeare before! This theatre production is directed by Dr Derek Irwin, the Head of School of English of the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) with the help of a very dedicated group of staff and students. 

MND is an extremely funny play with lively and memorable characters, and we have created a unique experience where our actors surround and sometimes even go through the audience!  You don’t want to miss this amazing opportunity to see one of Shakespeare’s best-written plays come to life at UNMC.  And tickets are a mere RM15!

About the play: 
The play begins in the city of Athens where Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons were planning to get married and throw a big celebration when suddenly Egeus, an Athenian noble man, enters the Duke’s court with his daughter, Hermia, her lover, Lysander and Demetrius, a young man of Athens, to see the Duke. Egeus demands Hermia to marry Demetrius but she refuses to do so because she is in love with Lysander.

Hermia and Lysander plan to run away from Athens and live happily together. Therefore, they explained their plans of running away to Hermia’s good friend, Helena, who is deeply in love with Demetrius. After hearing their plans, Helena decided to tell Demetrius about the plan in hope to regain his love. Instead, Demetrius decides to stop Hermia and Lysander from running away and follows them into the woods. 

In the same woods Hermia and Lysander ran off into, there are also a group of mechanicals - Bottom, Quince, Flute, Snug, Snout and Starveling, rehearsing a badly written play to perform during the celebration of the Duke and his bride. Besides that, in the same woods, there are also a group of fairies, which included Oberon, the king of fairies, and Titania, the queen of fairies. Titania and Oberon had an argument and Oberon wishes to seek for revenge on her by putting the juice of a magical flower into her eyelids until he met Demetrius, who was acting very cruel towards Helena. After seeing Demetrius behaviour, Oberon seeks Puck, his noble servant, to pour some of the juice into Demetrius’s eyelids. Things started to go wrong when Puck mistook Demetrius as Lysander. What would happen next? 

Details of the production are as follows: 

Show dates: 9th - 11th April 2015
Venue: Great Hall, Trent Building, UNMC
Time: 8 pm onwards
Matinee: 11 April 2015, 3 pm

Ticketing: 
Tickets to this production are priced at RM15 per person. 
  • For those who are interested, kindly email us your name, student ID (staff full name) and preferred show date to unmc.dream@gmail.com. Collection date and venue to be advised in email reply.
  • A booth will be setup at Block H inside foyer (in front of the bookstore) from March 30 to April 8, 2015 from 10 am to 3 pm (Mon - Fri). 
For more information about this production, please contact mndmarketing2015.unmc@gmail.com. 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream social media pages:

: UNMC Dream         : @unmcdream        Instagram: @unmc_dream 

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