Shakespeare’s much-loved
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is coming live to the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC), Semenyih. A
Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy filled with love and humour, involving a host of lively characters including the incomparable Nick Bottom the Weaver, Lord Oberon, King of the Fairies, and his glamorous Queen, Titania. You would not want to miss this amazing opportunity.
The play begins in the city of Athens where Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons were planning to get married and throw a big celebration when suddenly Egeus, an Athenian noble man, enters the Duke’s court with his daughter, Hermia, her lover, Lysander and Demetrius, a young man of Athens, to see the Duke. Egeus demands Hermia to marry Demetrius but she refuses to do so because she is in love with Lysander.
Hermia and Lysander plan to run away from Athens and live happily together. Therefore, they explained their plans of running away to Hermia’s good friend, Helena, who is deeply in love with Demetrius. After hearing their plans, Helena decided to tell Demetrius about the plan in hope to regain his love. Instead, Demetrius decides to stop Hermia and Lysander from running away and follows them into the woods.
In the same woods Hermia and Lysander ran off into, there are also a group of mechanicals - Bottom, Quince, Flute, Snug, Snout and Starveling, rehearsing a badly written play to perform during the celebration of the Duke and his bride. Besides that, in the same woods, there are also a group of fairies, which included Oberon, the king of fairies, and Titania, the queen of fairies. Titania and Oberon had an argument and Oberon wishes to seek for revenge on her by putting the juice of a magical flower into her eyelids until he met Demetrius, who was acting very cruel towards Helena. After seeing Demetrius behaviour, Oberon seeks Puck, his noble servant, to pour some of the juice into Demetrius’s eyelids. Things started to go wrong when Puck mistook Demetrius as Lysander. What would happen next?
This play has been performed all over the world to many different kinds of audiences, and now it is time for Malaysia to enjoy it, right here at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.
A group of dedicated and passionate students and staff of the University have produced this play. The production is directed by Dr Derek Irwin, the Head of School of English in the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, with the help of other members of staff. Derek also prepared the script, lightly adapting the Shakespearean original to make it more accessible to Malaysian audiences. The production is also innovatively staged, employing a unique three-stage set design to engage the audience fully in the action. The UNMC Dream promises to amaze and astound both Shakespeare fans and those people who have never before been exposed to Shakespeare.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, with four performances: 9th – 11th of April 2015, 8 pm and a matinee on the 11th of April, 3 pm.
Tickets are priced at RM15.00 per person.
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The University of Nottingham has 43,000 students and is ‘the nearest Britain has to a truly global university, with campuses in China and Malaysia modelled on a headquarters that is among the most attractive in Britain’ (Times Good University Guide 2014). It is also the most popular university in the UK among graduate employers one of the world’s greenest universities and winner of the Times Higher Education Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development’. It is ranked in the World’s Top 75 universities by the QS World University Rankings.
Posted on 18th March 2015