“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” BASED ON THE PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Since its premiere, this take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been an absolute hit, packing houses night after night and charming absolutely everyone—from the Avignon Festival to the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville-Mézières, France.

A sprightly, poetic comedy and fairy tale vaudeville, A Midsummer Night’s Dream whisks the audience straight into the heart of a Shakespearean forest where passions, secrets, and romantic intrigues intertwine in a whirlwind of activity performed by a cast of excentric elves and fairies.

In this enchanted realm, where social rules and conventions no longer apply, the imagination runs free and opens doors to all kinds of explorations of identity and desire. Puppetry reveals its full potential: the boundaries between masculine and feminine are playfully blurred with humour and whimsy, in a performance where familiar reference points are upended.

Somewhere between illusion and reality, dream and lie, this romantic mayhem ends up being a cathartic experience—for the characters and the audience alike.

A queer, comical, and thoroughly delightful puppet theatre version — La Terrasse

Heads up, this is a masterpiece! The actors are all stunning and extraordinary (…) Our joy never fades. — Toute la culture

Running time: 100 minutes

Technique: carried puppets

Audience: all audiences, 14 years +

A Casteliers and Théâtre Outremont co-presentation.

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Company

Founded in Brussels in 1993, the Point Zéro theatre company created some twenty notable productions to date, winning several awards in Belgium and internationally. Among its notable works are Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne, Le Fou et la Nonne, Les trois vieilles et L’Herbe de l’oubli.

Well established as part of the Brussels theatre scene, the company is now based at Le Ressort, a former industrial site dedicated to performing arts research and creation. With its distinctive visual signature, Point Zéro has been touring festivals around the world for several years

The company’s artistic work explores the relationship between actor and puppet, between the animate and the inanimate. Through its productions, Point Zéro probes the boundaries of the body—the frontiers between human and object, life and inertia—in a poetic investigation of the body in transformation, the symbolic, and the monstrous.

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Credits

Adaptation and stage direction: Jean-Michel d’Hoop
Assistant to the stage director: Lucile Vignolles
With: Ahmed Ayed, Soazig De Staercke, Manu Sophaël Hennebert, Marouan Iddoub, Amber Kemp, Nicolas Laine, Laurette Turquin, Simon Wauters
Music: Boris Gronemberger
Puppets and masks: Loïc Nebreda, assisted by Isis Hauben
Scenography: Olivier Wiame, assisted by Olivia Sprumont
Costumes: Camille Collin
Costume making: Cinzia Derom
Lighting: Xavier Lauwers
Choreography: Jérôme Louis
Set builder: Vincent Rutten
Stage management: Marc Defrise, Léa Vandooren
Technical coordinator: Gregoire Tempels
Photos: Debby Termonia
Production management and international booking: Nathalie Kamoun, Point Zéro
Production management and booking assistant: Marjorie Ribant, Point Zéro

A Point Zéro company show, in co-production with the Théâtre de Poche, the ATJV, the MC Tournai, the COOP asbl and Shelter Prod. With support from taxshelter.be, ING and the Belgian federal government’s tax shelter scheme. With assistance from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Centre des Arts Scéniques, the COCOF and Wallonie-Bruxelles International.