ALL is pleased to partner with local arts venues to build upon their performances with lectures that provide additional context and insight. These lectures are free, however registration is required. Tickets for performances are available through our partners.

An Introduction to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Anthony Harding

Friday, Dec. 13 – 6:00-6:30

In the moon-haunted woods near Athens, two passionate couples try to navigate their way to happiness, while a troupe of amateur actors gathers to rehearse an entertainment for the Duke’s upcoming marriage. All succumb to the often-misdirected magic of the fairy King and Queen. This guide to the resulting entanglements will help you fully enjoy tonight’s high-energy production from London’s Bridge Theatre.

The NT Live production of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" will be shown at 7:00pm following the seminar. Tickets are available at the door. The price is $10 for ALL members.

For more information about the film series, please visit justuscoffee.com/ntlive.

Anthony Harding

Anthony Harding taught English literature at the University of Saskatchewan from 1974 to 2005, and now lives in Wolfville. He has a BA from the University of Manchester and a PhD from Cambridge. He continues to study and write about the literature of the early nineteenth century, recently contributing a chapter on religion and classical mythology in Keats’s poetry to John Keats in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017).