A Midsummer Night's Dream @ QUT Gardens Theatre

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Tue 09 Oct 2012 - Sat 13 Oct 2012

One of Shakespeare's most popular and entertaining plays will be performed at QUT's Gardens Theatre from Tuesday the 9th to Saturday the 13th of October.

Written in the late sixteenth century, A Midsummer Night's Dream blends many of the bard's favourite themes into a delicious romp set in a magical forest.

Love, sexuality and the tyranny of social convention are all fair game as a group of Athenian nobles attempts to organise their weddings (and their love lives) with the added complications of a band of meddling faeries. Add an inept troupe of actors to the forest's inhabitants and you have the elements of one of Shakespeare's most-loved comedies.

The current production at QUT is performed by the university's second-year drama students, under the direction of distinguished local performer and director Jennifer Flowers. Flowers has won numerous Matilda awards for both her acting and directing, and has worked with theatre companies around Australia, including with Cate Blanchett at the Sydney Theatre Company.

While student productions are very much an opportunity for young actors to hone their craft, they're also a wonderful chance for audiences to see stars in the making. In recent years, QUT's acting course has produced performers of the calibre of Gyton Grantley and Anna McGahan (both of whom have lit up our television screens for much of the past year). You never know who you might be the first to see if you get along to this show.

It's also a chance to see a lovely venue right in the city. While lesser-known than the bigger venues at QPAC, the Gardens Theatre is a quality theatre just a short walk from the heart of the CBD.

And its location right next to the sprawling lawns and perfumed flowers of the City Botanic Gardens seems somehow just the right place for this particular show.

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