- Actors: Helen Mirren, Peter McEnery, Nigel Davenport, Phil Daniels, Don Estelle
- Directors: Elijah Moshinsky
- Producers: Jonathan Miller
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Classification: U
- Studio: BBC
- Run Time: 113 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000MSZCRG
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,156 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is probably the best-known and most popular of Shakespeare's fourteen comedies. In this highly praised and exuberant production, with it's fine acting, beautiful music and outstanding sets the plays elusive quality is skilfully captured.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I might be a bit biased here as it was this BBC-production that, when shown on German television about twenty years ago, brought me to be a Shakespeare devotee, but I still think that it is absolutely the best adaption of the Dream so far- Helen Mirren and Peter Mc Enery are great as Titania and Oberon and as for Robert Lindsay, he was a marvellous Lysander, way out of his depth when lost in the woods. It may not have the Tuscan views of the big Hollywood version with Rupert Everett, but for sheer histrionic brilliance, I`d watch it over and over again!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I hope that everybody associated with this production is proud of it, and of their part in it. I honestly think that given the constraints of budget and time (not to mention the large scope of the play itself), it is a triumph.
Producer Jonathan Miller and director Elijah Moshinsk deserve great credit for a piece which looks more sumptious than Miller's "King Lear" (as it needs to) but which is every bit as intelligently directed. In terms of lighting, sets and costumes, much has been taken from seventeenth century painting and masques. The night-time forest is a delight, as are the very funny scenes between the enchanted and misled lovers. The production boasts a uniformly strong cast which includes Helen Mirren (Titania), Robert Lindsay (Lysander), Nicky Henson (Demetrius), Phil Daniels (Puck), Peter McKenery (Oberon), Nigel Davenport (Theseus), Brian Glover (Bottom), Geoffrey Palmer, Don Estelle, Pippa Guard, etc.
In short, this is a first-rate production of what has to be one of Shakespeare's greatest and most magisterial of plays.
Beyond the "Subtitles" and "Scene Selection" options, the DVD has no extras.
Producer Jonathan Miller and director Elijah Moshinsk deserve great credit for a piece which looks more sumptious than Miller's "King Lear" (as it needs to) but which is every bit as intelligently directed. In terms of lighting, sets and costumes, much has been taken from seventeenth century painting and masques. The night-time forest is a delight, as are the very funny scenes between the enchanted and misled lovers. The production boasts a uniformly strong cast which includes Helen Mirren (Titania), Robert Lindsay (Lysander), Nicky Henson (Demetrius), Phil Daniels (Puck), Peter McKenery (Oberon), Nigel Davenport (Theseus), Brian Glover (Bottom), Geoffrey Palmer, Don Estelle, Pippa Guard, etc.
In short, this is a first-rate production of what has to be one of Shakespeare's greatest and most magisterial of plays.
Beyond the "Subtitles" and "Scene Selection" options, the DVD has no extras.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An interesting but now dated production, great for fans of Helen Mirren et al, but not the best production I have seen
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A dream version of the "Dream"
I have seen many productions of "The Dream" in the theatre and cinema but, without doubt, this is the best; although it does not have the excitement and dangers of live... Read more
Published 9 months ago by RR Waller
If you go down to the woods today...
This was not at all what I expected from Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's tale of fairies meddling in the lives of mortals is usually light and frothy, but this version had a... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ruth O'D
Oh Dear
BBC shakespeare can be bad - this is DIRE. If your child is studying this play at school look elsewhere - this will put them off shakespeare for life!! Read more
Published on 27 May 2010 by Mr. S. Armstrong
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