A couple of basics to start with:

• The show is called "S4K's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"

• It is a musical theatre adaptation of Shakespeare's classic "romcom" come tragedy - originally designed to be performed by 10 year-olds as the school play.

• Think of it as "Shakespeare 4 Kidz does for Shakespeare, what Oliver! did for Dickens" and you should understand the style of the show.

• We call this Music Theatre Shakespeare and we are regarded as the pioneers in this field.

• Branding the show S4K's A Midsummer Night's Dream avoids any confusion with potential customers that this is a traditional production of the original text.

• The show is a large-middle scale touring production with 13 cast, a live band and a crew of five.

• Each performance lasts 2 hours and 10 minutes including a 20-minute interval.

• Our audience demographic is varied: junior and primary schools (8 - 11);  lower secondary schools (12 - 14) (especially evening shows); GCSE students (15 - 16); parents and grand-parents with their (grand)children (all ages); Growing numbers at evening shows from repeat visitors who may have originally seen an S4K show with their junior school, but have now moved to secondary school.

• FREE ONLINE TEACHER RESOURCES from S4K Education and on-line interactive games, quizzes and information from S4K LEARNING will be made available from 1st September for schools who have booked for the theatre shows.

• Shakespeare 4 Kidz Education are running a series of A Midsummer Night's Dream Workshops at KS2 and KS3 across the UK to support a visit to the show. Pricing and availability from the S4K Education office. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

S4K's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Suggested Brochure copy

(118 words)

SIMPLY A DREAM COME TRUE ...

Fairies and fun, royalty and romance, magic and misunderstandings: S4K's A Midsummer Night’s Dream has them all. The Bard’s comedy gets a musical transformation from Shakespeare 4 Kidz, whose dazzling version has proved a huge hit every time it has toured.

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

It’s enchanting entertainment for people of all ages because the most famous lines are woven into easy-to-understand modern language. Simply a dream come true.

The perfect introduction to Shakespeare.