Midsummer Night´s Dream

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S

DREAM A hen party with a poltergeist, elves and goblins

A comedy by William Shakespeare adapted by Michael Niavarani

Director: Michael Niavarani & Helena Scheuba

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

“You won't believe what you see. Charmed by magical demons, if you're not careful, you'll fall in love with the person sitting next to you and no longer want 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 was the Puck!" (Michael Niavarani)

In Michael Niavarani's Midsummer Night's Dream it becomes eerie and magical: Puck, the poltergeist, is at work when lovers agree to eternal desire Promising desire and then constantly staring 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 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

Fine society
HIPPOLYTA Ariana Schirasi-Fard
THESEUS Joachim Brandl
PHILOSTRAT Rafael Schuchter / John F. Kutil

The engaged/lovers
HERMIA Sophie Aujesky / Helena Scheuba
HELENA Lisa Weidenmüller
LYSANDER Julian Loidl
DEMETRIUS Georg Leskovich

The one from the reality behind our reality
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

The elfs
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

The ones 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
PUBLISHING Schultz & Schirm Bühnenverlag
A production of NIAVARANI & HOANZL GmbH