This is a dream-state, otherworldly imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream– funny, playful, but possessing the dark urgency of a particularly bizarre dream that embroils the sleeper and occupies their thoughts even upon waking. This is the much-hyped collaboration between Bristol Old Vic’s artistic director Tom Morris and South African Handspring Puppet Company, whose previous partnership War […]
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Bristol Old Vic and Handspring Puppet Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
March 7th, 2013 by Geraldine Giddings![Handspring Puppet Company: Woyzeck on the Highveld ¦ Photo: Barney Simon](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/handspring-woyzeck.jpg)
Handspring Puppet Company: Woyzeck on the Highveld
September 6th, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorHandspring Puppet Company are best known in the UK for their key contribution to the multi-award-winning NT production War Horse. Their earlier production Woyzeck on the Highveld – here restaged by director Luc de Wit, produced by a international conglomerate of festivals, and presented here under the auspices of UK Arts International, Puppet Centre Trust and Barbican’s BITE […]