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The Hippodrome Youth Theatre are delighted to invite you on a brand-new adventure as they present a fast-paced, abridged version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, told in two acts of 45 minutes, and set in the present day.

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Join us as Demetrius, Lysander, Helena and Hermia escape Athens for the moonlit woods. There, alongside a band of enthusiastic amateur actors, they fall under the spell of mischievous faries — tumbling into a magical dream world where illusion and reality are hilariously confused.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream marks the first performance in our new youth scheme, The Bard @ Todhip — created to give local young people the chance to become familiar with Shakespeare, right here in their home town.

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The production is directed by Elizabeth Holland, whose passion for Shakespeare has previously brought his plays to the Hippodrome stage with adult members of Todmorden Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society.

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An evening of magic,

mischief and mayhem...