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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Globe Theatre
London SE1
4/5
EMMA RICE’S first production as the Globe Theatre’s new artistic director certainly throws down the gauntlet.
At the triple wedding that concludes Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Mechanicals perform Pyramus and Thisbe. Here, in Rice’s funny, irreverent and highly entertaining production, Starveling (Nandi Bhebhe, pictured) plays the “man i’ the moon” dressed as a spaceman.
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