"Well, back in Shakespeare's day, actors didn't all rehearse productions together for weeks on end, but rather learned their own lines and the lines before their lines and then got together and did the play on that basis alone."
"Is that a recipe for terrible productions? It's certainly a recipe for quick productions, and Twelfth Night went well enough that the Globe is doing it all again this year, with a take on the if anything even more beloved comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream."
"Its one and only performance will take place on Sunday September 14, and we can exclusively reveal the cast. The biggest name is Stephen Mangan, who played Malvolio in Twelfth Night and clearly had so much fun that he's up for it again, this time playing classic comedy character Bottom, the overenthusiastic amateur actor. He'll be joined by an excellent cast headed by Globe boss Michelle Terry as Hippolyta/Titania and her actor husband Paul 'Kev from Motherland ' Ready as Theseus/Oberon."
Shakespeare's Globe is staging a one-off, Elizabethan-style 'cue script' performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream on Sunday September 14. Cue-script practice requires actors to learn their own lines and the lines before theirs, then assemble and perform with minimal joint rehearsal. The Globe previously used this method for Twelfth Night two years ago. The production casts Stephen Mangan as Bottom, Michelle Terry as Hippolyta/Titania and Paul Ready as Theseus/Oberon, with Blanche McIntyre directing and an ensemble including Paul Chahidi, Alfred Enoch, Tanya Reynolds and Susan Wokoma. The staging promises quick, lively performances with room for playful disorder.
Read at Time Out London
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