Shakesbiergarten: Sommernachtstraum

This is how summery triple enjoyment works: snacks, cool drinks and a play in the balmy evening air!

All the plays are presented in a short, beer garden-friendly version of around 40 minutes, so that there is plenty of time afterwards to finish off, chat and enjoy a nightcap.

The play: In Athens, true love has a hard time - and no wonder: their ruler Theseus has brought his bride Hippolyta as spoils of war and is forcing her to marry. Hermia is also to be forced into marriage - to Demetrius. But Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, she loves Lysander and flees with him into the forest at night. But Demetrius is hot on their heels, although someone is also hot on his heels. Helena, who has long adored him in vain. But what good can come of this nocturnal forest, whose ruler, the fairy king Oberon, is hopelessly at odds with his wife Titania - instead of love, there is only jealousy between them!
Shakespeare has transformed this multiple love confusion into an enchanting comedy in which humor and longing dreams merge magically.
The drama about the four lovers, who are driven into the woods at night by the quarrelling fairy king and queen, has already been restaged three times by the bremer shakespeare company in recent decades. With Patricia Benecke ("The Winter's Tale", "The Strange Case of Prudencia Hart") as director, she is bringing the popular dream comedy to the stage with just four actors. With simple props and a few musical instruments, the quartet throws themselves into the fast-paced, twisting changes of characters and situations under the motto "Little material required, but all the more imagination" and draws the audience into Shakespeare's summer night worlds of light and shadow.