Indiantelevision.com Team

(4 January 2008 3:00 pm)

BANGALORE: Reliance Communications (RComm) and the British Council announced that they will bring back Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream produced by Dash Art Productions. The play will be staged in the four Indian metros - Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.

While addressing the media via a video conference, RComm branding and marketing head Sanjay Behl said, "Apart from a strong script and a superlative performance by multi-cultural artists, the uniqueness of A Midsummer Night’s Dream also lays in its communication structure that uses polyglot script of English, Tamil, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Sanskrit within each and every single performance. The play truly exemplifies the core values of Reliance that language and races are not barriers in achieving our dreams and inspiring to live our ‘Think bigger, think better’ motto."

Directed by Tim Supple and two years in the making, this British Council-commissioned show caused a sensation in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai in April last year, says the official release. It has since had sell-out runs at the Roundhouse in London, Verona, and twice in Stratford-on-Avon, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The production, over the course of 2007, has visited Watford, Richmond, Malvern, Newcastle, Bath, Oxford, Edinburgh, Salford and Plymouth.