A Midsummer Night�s Dream Attracts Big Audience

Shakespeare Play audience going in the show room to watch the paly.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Shakespeare Play audience going in the show room to watch the paly.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream screening attracted a big audience at Maitisong Theatre on Saturday. The screening of the comedy play is part of the Shakespeare Lives international project.

The British High Commission, in partnership with Maru-a-Pula School and Maitisong, has launched ‘Shakespeare o a Tshela’, part of the Great Britain Campaign and British Council’s Shakespeare Lives project. The screening attracted both young and old audience. There was never a dull moment as the audience enjoyed the humour in the three-hour play. The screening was a live theatre play recorded at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. The play, which is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597, depicted events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta.  It included four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who were controlled and manipulated by the fairies that inhabit the forest in which most of the play was set.

It was laughter throughout the screening. After the film, the audience shared their views with Showtime regarding the screening of this play and the entire ‘Shakespeare o a Tshela’ project. “I believe this is also a modern way of imparting Shakespeare’s literature in visuals unlike in books only like it was during our time,” stated Sally Tau, an elderly citizen who said that she has read a number of Shakespearean writings.

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