Shakespeare In The Park returns with stellar cast in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

AFTER the worst pandemic years, in which we were not sure whether we were awake or asleep, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream might just be the play we should treat ourselves to, to assure us that this semi-wakeful state can be – at least for two-and-a-half hours – a contrastingly enchanting experience.

The 427-year-old play is the most popular of all the Bard’s works, staged more frequently than even Romeo & Juliet. It is rife with moonbeams and magic, as it tells a dreamlike story of mischievous fairies, love potions, mismatched suitors and human-animal transformations in an enchanted forest. 

As part of Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Shakespeare In The Park series, the production will be mounted on an open-air stage in Fort Canning Park, amplifying the story’s already lush and verdant setting. It is the first Shakespeare In The Park production since 2018’s Julius Caesar.