Julie Taymor, Tony Award winner for her direction of The Lion King
musical, is an artist internationally acclaimed for her bold and original imagination. For TFANA’s inaugural 2015 production in its new theatre, she staged Shakespeare’s joyous comedy about the universal theme of love and its complications: lust, disappointment, confusion, unrequited passion, marriage. A Midsummer Night’s Dream brilliantly conjoins four intertwined stories: the marriage of the Athenian Duke Theseus to the Amazon queen Hippolyta; the warring Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies; the madcap follies of four lovers in a forest; and the comical efforts of a group of working men creating a love-play to entertain guests at the royal wedding. Music by Elliot Goldenthall and starring Kathryn Hunter as Puck.
Taymor first directed Shakespeare at TFANA, with The Tempest in 1985, and went on to stage four other Shakespeare plays with the company.
