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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bridge Theatre review - Nick Hytner's hit gender-bender returns refreshed

by Helen Hawkins

This Dream is a great night out, especially for Shakespeare first-timers It's a sign of the inroads that the term "immersive" has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the Bridge inside Shakespeare's actual text, when Duke Theseus tells his new bride Hippolyta not to flinch when the Rude Mechanical playing Moon shines a bright light in her eyes: "It's immersive."

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 9:36am on June 10, 2025