This Royal Shakespeare Company production was first performed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon on 30th March 1989, opening to the press on 11th April.
It ran in repertoire through the 1989 Stratford season and then toured the UK before opening at the Barbican Theatre on 4th December 1989 where it played in repertoire through the 1990 season.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
| Written by | William Shakespeare |
| 'Incidental Music for Midsummer Night's Dream' by | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
| Director | John Caird |
| Designed by | Sue Blane |
| Lighting by | Alan Burrett |
| Music by | Ilona Sekacz |
| Choreography by | Anthony Van Laast |
| Theseus / Oberon | John Carlisle |
| Hippolyta / Titania | Clare Higgins |
| Egeus | Russell Enoch |
| Hermia | Amanda Bellamy |
| Helena | Sarah Crowden |
| Demetrius | Paul Lacoux |
| Lysander | Stephen Simms |
| Peter Quince | Paul Webster |
| Bottom | David Troughton |
| Flute | Graham Turner |
| Snug | Jimmy Gardner |
| Snout | David Shaw-Parker |
| Starveling | Dhobi Oparei |
| Puck | Richard McCabe |
| First Fairy | Liza Hayden |
| Indian Boy | Krishnan Chauhan / Mandip Jheeta |
| Oberon’s Fairies | Keith Goozee / Peter Hamilton-Dyer / Andrew Havill / Neil Richardson |
| Titania’s Fairies | Sharon Hinds / Polly Kemp / Jacqueline Leonard |
| Mustardseed | Jodie Ball / Chloe Trotman |
| Peaseblossom | Charlotte Bridgewater / Fiona Gibson |
| Cobweb | Zachary Gregory / Richard Handy |
| Moth | Curtis Mason / Mark Seavers |
| Ian Embleton took over fairying duties from Peter Hamilton Dyer |
| The Indian Boy was played by Kemal Ibrahim or Halal Miah |
| The fairy children were: |
| Mustardseed | Carlie Gabriel / Lisa O’Connell |
| Peaseblossom | Victoria Avery / Stephanie Bagshaw |
| Cobweb | John Bingham / Andrew Dicks |
| Moth | Karl Maddix / Henry Toller |
