Midsummer Night's Dream 2024

A hen party with poltergeist, elves and goblins

A comedy by William Shakespeare adapted by Michael Niavarani

Directed by: Michael Niavarani & Helena Scheuba

Michael Niavarani does it again: After Richard III. and Romeo & It's now Juliet's turn to play Shakespeare's most famous comedy - A Midsummer Night's Dream.

“You won't believe what you see. If you're not careful, you'll find yourself enchanted by magical demons.

falling in love with the person sitting next to you and no longer wanting to go home with your husband. What's going on there? Quite simply: When lovers promise each other eternal desire and then constantly love someone else - then that's the puck!" (Michael Niavarani)

In Michael Niavarani's Midsummer Night's Dream, things get eerie and magical: Puck, the poltergeist, is at work when lovers promise each other eternal desire and then constantly look at someone else. And when Puck, who makes our lives difficult, distributes love hormones, a woman may rub her eyes and ask: “Did I just sleep with a donkey?” The elf queen and the elf king are fighting over their adopted child Child and lo and behold, the elements are going crazy. Everything like in real life. And when an untalented acting troupe rehearses the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe” in the forest, things become unintentionally funny. A happy ending for all lovers is guaranteed.

Program and cast

ON STAGE:

D I E   F E I N E   G E S E L L S C H A F T

HIPPOLYTA Ariana Schirasi-Fard

THESEUS Joachim Brandl

PHILOSTRAT Rafael Schuchter / John F. Kutil

D I E   V E R PRAISE / V E R L I E B T E N

HERMIA Sophie Aujesky / Helena Scheuba

HELENA Lisa Weidenmüller

LYSANDER Julian Loidl

DEMETRIUS Georg Leskovich

T H E A U S T H E R W I R K L I C H K E I T

H I N T E R   U N S E R E R   W I R K L I C H K E I T

TITANIA the fairy queen Sigrid Hauser

OBERON the fairy king, Bernhard Murg her husband

PUCK a poltergeist, Julia Edtmeier

Oberon's servant

THE EMPLOYEES

PETRA SQUENZ (PROLOGUE) Katharina Dorian

NIKLAS ZETTEL (PYRAMUS) Michael Niavarani

MR FLAUT (THISBE) Matthias Mamedof

MRS SCHNAUZ (WAND) Magda Leeb

MR SCHNOCK (LÖWE) Stefan Altenhofer

FRAU SCHLAGER (MOON) Jennifer Frankl

PUCK 2, 3 and 4 Nora Hackstock, Lena Prokop, Rebecca Rosenthal, Lisa Kimberly Schöppl

E L F E N

ape connection: Moritz König, Jan Raffael Löbl, Johannes Melnitzky, Michael Mölschl, Matthias Pazourek, Florian Polsterer,

Svetozar Popovic, Michael Reiskopf, Raphael Rossi, Florian Rögner, Christof Sapper, Diana Scharbl, Alex Schauer, Hanna Tavolato, Nadine Valenta, Thomas Wolf

BACKSTAGE:

BOOK Michael Niavarani

Laurence Boswell

After William Shakespeare

TRANSLATION OF SHAKESPEARE QUOTES Frank Günther, Helena Scheuba, Jürgen Gosch, Angela Schanelec and Wolfgang

Vienna, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck, Dorothea Tieck, Count von Baudissin

DIRECTED BY Michael Niavarani & Helena Scheuba

COMPOSITIONS Johannes Glück

ARRANGEMENTS Christian Frank

COSTUME Inge Stolterfoht

CHEF'S WARDROBE Pink Dreher

DRESSERS Barbara Chloupek, Sophie Gruber, Fabienne Seither, Lara Silbergasser, Elinette Zobl

MASK Viktoria Carioli

EVENING MASK Julia Artner, Jacqueline Daume, Lisa Fiehl, Nina Haider, Anna Maurer

SFX MASK Gaby Grünwald

VICIOUS FX MASK Valerie Rossacher, Georg Korpás

STAGE DESIGN Enid Löser

PROPS Silke Drack

LIGHTING DESIGN Dominik Herout, Fabian Mühlberger, Andreas Raunig

SOUND DESIGN Stefan Angerer, Gerry Wimmer, Luca Zettl

STAGE TECHNOLOGY Florian Apfel, Sascha Dreindl, Christoph Skorjanec

MOVEMENT

ARTISTS ape connection

PRODUCTION MANAGER Andrea Kern

MANAGEMENT Bojan Djukic, Benedict Steininger

PRODUCERS Georg Hoanzl & Michael Niavarani

PUBLISHER Schultz & Schirm Bühnenverlag

A production by NIAVARANI & HOANZL GmbH