National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jun 3, 2019

2h 39m

★ 7.6

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Overview

A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences.

Genres

Comedy

Fantasy

Production Companies

National Theatre

Bridge Theatre

National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailers

Cast

Theseus / Oberon

Oliver Chris

Hippolyta / Titania

Gwendoline Christie

Philostrate / Puck

David Moorst

Hermia

Isis Hainsworth

Helena

Tessa Bonham Jones

Demetrius

Paul Adeyefa

Lysander

Kit Young

Egeus

Kevin McMonagle

Quince

Felicity Montagu

Bottom

Hammed Animashaun

Flute

Jermaine Freeman

Snout

Ami Metcalf

When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.

7.4

Rushmore

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6.9

The Goodbye Girl

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7.3

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

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7.2

Chers parents

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No overview available.

0.0

Le Médecin malgré lui

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No overview available.

7.0

Bisous Bisous

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No overview available.

0.0

Kakadu

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No overview available.

2.3

Paní plukovníková

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10.0

Revue Starlight ―The LIVE― #4 Climax

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8.2

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5.0

Actresses

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Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.

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0.0

Tea at the senator's

Apr 14, 1957

No overview available.

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0.0

The Cabinet Minister's Wife

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No overview available.

6.8

Espèces menacées

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6.8

L'Invitation

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No overview available.

6.1

The Flying Classroom

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6.8

Shakespeare in Love

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