A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespearedirected by Malcolm Brown
October 1994
The Civic Theatre
Leeds Arts Centre will be presenting a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Thursday 18th – Saturday 20th July 2024 – you can find more details elsewhere on this site.

Leeds Arts Centre performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in October 1994.

Production photos

These photographs were taken during the production’s rehearsals.

Set designs

The set for this production was designed by Malcolm Brown; the original set model can be seen here.

Cast

Theseus / OberonMichael Brooksbank
Hippolyta / TitaniaGwyneth Hadley
Puck / PhilostrateEddie Butler
Egeus / QuinceMartin Key
DemetriusRichard Francis
LysanderLaurie Toczek
HermiaShirley Burgess
HelenaMargaret Savage
BottomDavid Mallinson
FluteChris Ward
SnoutMark Coward
SnugMatthew Brighton

Backstage team

DirectorMalcolm Brown
Stage ManagerMartyn Drake
Set ConstructionStuart Wilton
 Martyn Drake
 George Westmoreland
 George Teale
 Gordon Wilson
CostumesBetty Triggs
 LAC Team
PropertiesMonica Brown
 Kathryn Heneachon
Sound RecordingJim Marshall
Sound OperationJoe Hartley
PromptJean Blundell
Publicity DirectorChris Ward
Box OfficeMaggie Rhodes
 June Stevenson
Front of HouseJoyce King

Archive documents

The following documents from the production are in the LAC archive.

Download: Programme
(479 KBytes)

Add to the archive

We’re always looking to add to our archive of past productions – if you have any other memories of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we would be very pleased to hear from you.

Other productions

Leeds Arts Centre will be performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream again, from Thursday 18th – Saturday 20th July 2024 – you can find more details of this new production elsewhere on this site.

We have also performed it on other occasions before, in 2005, 1970 and 1959 – more details of those productions can be found by following these links to their pages in this archive.