A Midsummer Night's Dream Coming Here

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Coming Here

The Actors’ Gang, the critically acclaimed Los Angeles based ensemble theatre company, presents a Shakespeare classic. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Artistic Director, Tim Robbins

It will open Saturday, June 29. The show runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm at the company’s home theater at the Ivy Substation in Culver City.

Tickets are available by phone 310.838.4264 or online at www.TheActorsGang.com.

A surreal world of fairies, spells, incantations, lovers bewitched by magic, the Fairy Queen making love to an ass...The world in disorder made right by the mischief of the night. Twelve actors from The Actors’ Gang working with director Tim Robbins and the company’s Co-Artistic Director, Cynthia Ettinger illuminate Shakespeare’s forest with original music, kinetic expression and a fervent approach to the reality and magic of the language of the play.

“This is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays—there are so many layers of truth, untruth, dream, reality, magic and deception. A marital dispute puts the universe in disorder and the confusion that emerges is dangerous and full of outrageous behavior and wildly funny.” – Director, Tim Robbins

This workshop production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be presented with minimal costumes, props and scenery, relying mainly on the creative imagination of its players to realize Shakespeare’s magical world.

Robbins ranks among contemporary cinema’s most acclaimed and provocative voices; a multifaceted talent, who has acted in, written, directed and produced films including Mystic River, Catch a Fire, Dead Man Walking, The Shawshank Redemption, The Player, Bob Roberts, Bull Durham, Jacobs Ladder, Hudsucker Proxy, The Secret Life of Words and Cradle Will Rock.

In addition Robbins has been a consistent and influential voice in the theater for the past 32 years as an actor, director, playwright and artistic director of The Actors’ Gang, which has travelled the world to five continents and extensively in the United States with productions including Embedded, George Orwells' 1984, The Exonerated, The Guys, and The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.