Nick is an amateur actor of the kind we’ve all met, blessed with rather more enthusiasm than talent.Once again an audition in his drama group, the Athenian Players, has ended in disappointment for Nick. Drowning his sorrows, he nods off…
As he sleeps he dreams, and in his dream he finds himself plunged into another ‘audition’: this time it is the casting scene for the mechanicals fromA Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Nick finds himself transformed into Nick Bottom, the weaver, and the rest of his drama group into other characters from The Dream – but now Nick does get the starring role!
In his fevered and chaotic dream world Nick meets again the bossy drama group director, the self-important chairman and of course the girl he really fancies.
Shakespeare Live show you all the outlandish confusion of Bottom’s story – the stuff of fantasy, and in the end “No more yielding but a dream…”
All shows start at 8pm and all tickets are £10.
Saturday October 7, The Cause, Chippenham, 07780 938107
Tuesday October 10, The Pound, Corsham, www.poundarts.org.uk
Wednesday October 11, The Wharf, Devizes, www.wharftheatre.co.uk