The Dream That Hath No Bottom

A musical for young people drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream - set against a background of Elizabethan England, the Armada, and the Reformation.

Featuring Pyramus and Thisbe by John Frederick Lampe (1745)

2001

about 1 hr 45'

Highly suitable for curriculum use!
Plenty of opportunities for percussion and other instruments

Score

available from the composer

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Libretto

by the composer after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Cast list

For a large cast of singers/actors and ensemble (ad lib)

Synopsis

Some Elizabethan schoolchildren decide to make up a play: they want it to be about all sorts of things.... And when they've finished it, they reckon it's pretty good - so why not send it to one of these up-and-coming playwrights in London? (The rest,as they say, is history).

Songs

Exuberant choruses, virtuosic solos - everything from medieval to jazz and beyond...

Programme note

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