A Midsummer Night's Dream at Penlee Park Open Air Theatre

Schedule

Sun, 16 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00
Location

Penlee Park Open Air Theatre | Penzance, EN

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Four Forty Theatre tackle A Midsummer Night’s Dream with their trademark mix of irreverence, wit, and theatrical ingenuity.
Back by popular demand, Four Forty Theatre return with their signature mix of quick-fire humour and inventive chaos. A Midsummer Night’s Dream has never been this much fun.
Lovers are enchanted, fairies feud, and a troupe of hapless players rehearse their way into disaster — all in a single moonlit night. Celebrated for inventive staging, breakneck character changes, and playful dismantling of tradition, Four Forty breathe fresh mischief into Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy.
The result is part affectionate homage, part riotous reinvention: clever, chaotic, and utterly alive. It’s a Dream performed with wit turned sharp and imagination turned loose — Shakespeare, but with Four Forty’s unmistakable spirit driving the mayhem.
This isn’t the Midsummer Night’s Dream you half-remember from school. Four Forty Theatre spin Shakespeare’s most mischievous comedy into a fast-paced, irreverent, and gloriously unpredictable night of theatre.
Shakespeare’s dream — turned gloriously inside out.
Magic, mayhem, and midsummer madness — perfect for the whole family.
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Where is it happening?

Penlee Park Open Air Theatre, Morrab Road,Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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