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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at THE ABBEY THEATRE, DUBLIN, on Saturday 28th March 2015

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at THE ABBEY THEATRE, DUBLIN,  on Saturday 28th March 2015  CREDITS  Fiona Bell - Titania and Hippolyta Andrew Bennett - Nick Bottom Des Cave - Robin Starveling Declan Conlon - Oberon and Theseus Shadaan Felfeli - Indian boy John Kavanagh - Lysander Peadar Lamb - Francis Flute Stella McCusker - Peaseblossom Barry McGovern - Demetrius Gina Moxley - Helena Máire Ní Ghráinne - Mustard Seed Áine Ní Mhuirí - Hermia Des Nealon - Tom Snout John Olohan - Snug David Pearse - Egeus and Peter Quince Geraldine Plunkett - Cobweb Daniel Reardon - Puck and Philostrate Helen Roche - Moth Gavin Quinn - Director Aedín Cosgrove - Set and Lighting Design Jimmy Eadie - Composer and Sound Designer Bruno Schwengl - Costume Design  The Imperial tongue has no great incongruity at the Abbey Theatre since all the great Irish (but really Anglo-Irish) playwrights wrote in it rather than the native Gaelic but the presence of the great avatar of the English language is real