Titania – A Preview at the Lyric Theatre (Thursday 25 June)
£12.00
Thursday 25 June at 7.30pm
THE Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street, Bridport DT6 3LX
Tickets: £12.00
Tickets are non refundable
Audience also has a chance to meet the creative team via a question and answer session.
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Description
‘Run towards things that scare you, so I am running full pelt. Why wouldn’t you want to play the mother of the earth, the Queen of the Fairies?’ Nia Gwynne
Coming from the minds of British Director and Screenwriter Dictynna Hood (Wreckers, starring Benedict Cumberbatchand, Claire Foy; Us Among the Stones, starring, Laurence Fox and, Anna Calder-Marshall) and acclaimed stage and screen actor Nia Gwynne (Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear and Titus Andronicus; BAFTA-winning films Pride and Darkest Hour) comes a one-woman show steeped in comedy, tragedy and poetry, where the lines between past and present, and tenderness and threat begin to blur.
Four hundred years after A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania remains – but not as you remember her.
In this striking preview performance, the fairy queen Titania (played by Nia Gwynne) has fallen into our world, now living and working as a cleaner in a theatre.
Over a span of 75 minutes, Titania pieces together what has happened after Shakespeare’s ending: Oberon is gone, Puck has slipped into the digital world, the forests are thinning, the seasons faltering, and her once thriving fairy kingdom is now lost.
“Dictynna and I have known each other for several years now but never had the chance to properly work together so this is exciting. It’s very collaborative and we are enjoying the direct address nature of it very much. It’s storytelling but it’s also a conversation with the audience, it questions what’s happening with us in the world now – and we hope that we can bring it to all sorts of audiences and that we get to open discussion with people all over the country.” – Nia GwynneInspired by Hood’s life attending the seasons, forests and flowers in Cornwall, “Titania” invites audiences to enter a world that is full of magic – theatrical and otherwise – to escape the difficult times of today.
Audiences also have a chance to meet the creative team via a question and answer session
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