Shakespeare 4 Kidz - S4K’s A Midsummer Night's Dream Comes to Bahrain

Acclaimed UK theatre company Shakespeare 4 Kidz, also known as S4K, are back in Bahrain for the fourth time with one of their hugely popular musical adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays.

This time the hilarious comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream is getting the S4K treatment and Bahrain-based Entertainment Plus are promoting four performances of the show at the Bahrain Alumni Club in Adilya, a venue where the company performed S4K’s Macbeth in March 2010.

The Shakespeare 4 Kidz musical version of the Bard’s comedy was first staged in the UK in 1997 and has proved a huge hit every time it has toured.

With fairies and fun, royalty and romance, magic and misunderstandings: A Midsummer Night’s Dream has them all and more. So, little wonder this enchanting play is one of the most popular ever written.

Who can resist the fabulous story of a Duke marrying his Amazonian queen, two sets of lovers who elope into the woods where the audience finds feuding fairies and a naughty sprite called Puck, whose mismanaged magic causes no end of hilarity?

And not forgetting the group of Athenian workmen rehearsing a play to entertain the royal couple at their wedding celebrations.

Audiences and reviewers have been loving S4K’s show, which started its UK tour September last year. Noel Andrew Harron's outrageously camp Puck has become a firm favourite with the kids who, says The Stage, are all clamouring to be his friends by the end of the show. Sean Luckham's ebullient Bottom is another big hit. Bottom is one of theatre’s funniest roles and audiences are guaranteed a great laugh when Puck’s prank puts an ass’s head onto him and fairy queen Titania wakes up and promptly falls in love with him.

Both actors are making their fourth visit to Bahrain with S4K.

Paula Mansour of Entertainment Plus has brought the Shakespeare 4 Kidz Theatre Company to Bahrain on three previous occasions: Hamlet in 2008, Romeo and Juliet in 2009 and Macbeth last year. The company arrive in Bahrain direct from Dubai where they have played eight shows at the Centrepoint Theatre, DUCTAC.

S4K’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is showing at the Bahrain Alumni Club in Adliya from Saturday 15 January until Monday 17 January 2011. Performances are at the following times: Saturday 15 January @ 4.30pm, Sunday 16 January @ 11am, and Monday 17 January @ 8.45am and 11.45am. Tickets are available from Al Osra on Budaiya Highway, Razmatazz on Budaiya Highway, and Havajava cafe in Manazel. Ticket prices are BD16 for adults, BD13 for kids.

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Contact information:
BAHRAIN:
Paula Mansour Entertainment Plus

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UK:
Shakespeare 4 Kidz Production Office
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Website: www.shakespeare4kidz.com

What they say about us:
"They were a real team and they were a tribute to your company and the effort you put into ensuring that what is offered to schools year in year out is truly a quality performance, executed by those guys as if it comes from the heart. The writing and direction goes a long way to make the magic in the first place and those guys on that stage did you proud."