One of William Shakespeare best-loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream being is presented by the MADC as its annual Shakespearian play on 25, 27, 28 and 29 July.

This romantic comedy portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors in a moonlit forest, and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit it.

For the first time since World War II, the performances will take place at the Old Opera House Ruins in Valletta, as part of the Malta Arts Festival organised by the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts. The spectacular out-of-this-world concept of this magical production by director Chris Gatt, and co-directed by Denise Mulholland, is set to amaze and take the audience’s breath away.

The cast includes Nerissa Pace as Helena, Jean Marc Agius Cafà as Lysander, Matthew Gatt as Demetrius, Faye Paris as Hermia, Edward Mercieca as Bottom, Pia Zammit as Titania, Manuel Cauchi as Thesues/Oberon, Isabella Attard as Puck and Coryse Borg as Hippolyta, as well as Alan Montanaro, Paula Fleri Soler, Wesley Ellul, David Ellul Mercer, Martin Azzopardi and an all-singing, all-dancing band of fairies. Original music is by Alexandra Vella Gregory while choreography is by Emma Loftus.

Tickets for A Midsummer Night’s Dream may be purchased from www.

maltaticket.com, Agenda Bookshops, Exotique, Newskiosk and Bookends. More information may be obtained from website: www.madc.biz; email:

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