A Midsummer Night's Dream with Hugh Bonneville | Preview
Bonneville started his career at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He and Fiennes meet up to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular plays. Bonneville also sees the play at the Globe Theatre and talks to the Globe’s Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole.
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Hugh Bonneville and Ralph Fiennes on Performing Shakespeare
S2 E1 - 2m 26s
Bonneville started his career at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He and Fiennes meet up again to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular plays, a great comedy of love and enchantment.
Julie Taymor on her Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
S2 E1 - 2m 48s
Director Julie Taymor, who recently staged a vivid production at the Theater for a New Audience in Brooklyn (starring David Harewood). In the deserted Globe Theatre, Bonneville muses on the play’s enduring appeal.
Hugh Bonneville on Shakespeare's Poetic Forms
S2 E1 - 2m 17s
Hugh Bonneville discusses how Shakespeare uses poetic from to instruct the actors on how to play their role in a scene.
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