A Midsummer Night's Dream
30th March 1989
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, RSC
by William Shakespeare
This Royal Shakespeare Company production was first performed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon on 30th March 1989, opening to the press on 11th April.
It ran in repertoire through the 1989 Stratford season and then toured the UK before opening at the Barbican Theatre on 4th December 1989 where it played in repertoire through the 1990 season.
Creative team
| Director | John Caird |
Cast
| Theseus | John Carlisle |
| Hippolyta | Clare Higgins |
| Egeus | Russell Enoch |
| Hermia | Amanda Bellamy |
| Helena | Sarah Crowden |
| Demetrius | Paul Lacoux |
| Lysander | Stephen Simms |
| Peter Quince | Paul Webster |
| Bottom | David Troughton |
| Flute | Graham Turner |
| Snug | Jimmy Gardner |
| Snout | David Shaw-Parker |
| Starveling | Dhobi Oparei |
| Oberon | John Carlisle |
| Titania | Clare Higgins |
| Puck | Richard McCabe |
| First Fairy | Liza Hayden |
| Indian Boy | Krishnan Chauhan/Mandip Jheeta |
| Oberon’s Fairies | Keith Goozee /Peter Hamilton-Dyer/AndrewHavill/Neil Richardson |
| Titania’s Fairies | Sharon Hinds/Polly Kemp/Jacqueline Leonard |
| Mustardseed | Jodie Ball/Chloe Trotman |
| Peaseblossom | Charlotte Bridgewater/Fiona Gibson |
| Cobweb | Zachary Gregory/Richard Handy |
| Moth | Curtis Mason/Mark Seavers |
At the Barbican Theatre
| Mustardseed | Carlie Gabriel/Lisa O’Connell |
| Peaseblossom | Victoria Avery/Stephanie Bagshaw |
| Cobweb | John Bingham/Andrew Dicks |
| Moth | Karl Maddix/Henry Toller |