A Midsummer Night's Dream Cast and Creatives Close Helena / Starveling Boni Adeliyi This is Boni’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Mountaintop (Chipping Norton Theatre). Television includes: Austin (ABC); True Love (Channel 4) Doctors (BBC); My Lady Jane (Amazon Prime Video) and Grace (ITV). Off-Stage Understudy Talitha Christina This is Talitha's RSC debut Theatre includes: The War of the Worlds (Wilton’s Music Hall), Twelfth Night (National Youth Theatre), Sail The House Home (Southwark Playhouse) Television includes: The Lady (ITV) Trained at: National Youth Theatre REP Company Lysander / Snug Kaireece Denton This is Kaireece’s RSC debut Kaireece is a British actor who graduated from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2024. Theatre includes: Hot Wing King (National Theatre) Titania / Hippolyta Amelia Donkor RSC credits: As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew (RSC) Theatre includes: His Last Report (York Theatre Royal); Dear Martin (Arcola Theatre); The City and the Town (Riksteatern/Matthew Linley Productions); Private Lives, Under Another Sky (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Little Women (Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Watford Palace); Duende, My Last Duchess, Richard III (The Faction); Prince Charming’s Christmas Cracker, The Culture (Hull Truck); The 39 Steps (Stephen Joseph theatre); What Shadows (Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre/ The Park theatre); Villette (Leeds Playhouse); Vassa Zheleznova (Southward Playhouse/The Faction); The Fruit Trilogy (Southbank Centre/ Leeds Playhouse); Wanted! Robin Hood, Mother Courage (The Lowry/Manchester Library Theatre); Manchester Lines (Manchester Library Theatre); I Have a Dream (Polka); Six Seeds (National Theatre/Told by an Idiot); Arabian Nights (Young Vic). Television includes: Midsomer Murders; The Bill; Trial & Retribution (ITV); Steel Town Murders; Manhunt II; Eastenders; Guilt; Emmerdale; Casualty; In the Dock; Wizards Vs Aliens; Holby City; Doctors (BBC) and Hollyoaks (Channel 4). Puck Josephine Fransilja-Brookman This is Joséphine Fransilja’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Lonely Londoners (Kiln Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Lyric Hammersmith / Headlong); High Times and Dirty Monsters (Liverpool Everyman / 20 Stories High), A Pigment of Your Imagination (Pleasance Theatre London), Bull (The Wardrobe Theatre). Film credits include: The Prang and A Long And Happy Life (for Curzon Artificial Eye). Short Film credits include: Faithfully (University of Sussex); MO <3 KYRA 4EVA (Film 4/104 Films) Sleepy Head (Disney NFTS) and The One That Follows (BFS). Oberon / Theseus Chris Jared RSC credits includes: The Taming Of The Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Hamlet Theatre includes: Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (UK tour/West End); Amélie (Watermill/UK tour/The Other Palace/West End); Sleep No More (Punchdrunk-McKinnon Hotel); 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Globe Theatre/ UK and US Tour - Kneehigh); The Duchess Of Malfi (Nottingham Playhouse); Cyrano De Bergerac (Northern Stage/Royal and Derngate), Coriolanus (National Theatre Wales); Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Three Sisters (Manchester Royal Exchange) Demetrius / Flute Shahin Rezvani This is Shahin’s RSC debut Theatre includes: The Retreating World (Seemia Theatre & Gate Theatre); Fanny & Alexander and 13 (Oxford School of Drama) Short Film includes: Next of Kin (Oxford School of Drama) Bottom / Egeus Emmy Stonelake RSC credits include: The Fair Maid of the West Theatre includes: Sweet Henry V (Birmingham Rep); Beauty and the Beast (Storyhouse); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tell Me How It Ends, Beauty and the Beast (Liverpool Everyman), Pride and Prejudice *Sort Of (UK Tour); Double Drop (Dirty Protest); Belly Up (Turbine Theatre); OG Prince of Wales, A Christmas Carol (Sherman Theatre); Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Squares) and Much Ado About Nothing (Mercury Theatre Colchester). Television includes: Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC), RSVP, Enid and Lucy, 35 Days (S4C), Doctors (BBC) and The Diplomat (BBC/Alibi). Hermia / Peter Quince Scout Worsley Theatre includes: The Tempest, Henry VI: Rebellion, All Mirth No Matter and The Merchant of Venice (RSC) Television includes: School Bus (CBBC) Previous Next Cast Helena / Starveling Boni Adeliyi Off-Stage Understudy Talitha Christina Lysander / Snug Kaireece Denton Titania / Hippolyta Amelia Donkor Puck Josephine Fransilja-Brookman Oberon / Theseus Chris Jared Demetrius / Flute Shahin Rezvani Bottom / Egeus Emmy Stonelake Hermia / Peter Quince Scout Worsley Creatives Co-Director Rachel Bagshaw Editor & Co-Director Robin Belfield Set & Costume Designer Lily Arnold Lighting Designer Sally Ferguson Composer & Sound Designer Holly Khan Choreographer Laura Cubitt Captions Designer Will Monks Fight Director Bethan Clark Casting Director Matthew Dewsbury CDG Assistant Director Amber Sinclair-Case Casting Assistant Charlie Metcalf Wardrobe Manager Izzy Pellow Production Manager Ria Tubman Stage Manager Kirsty MacDiarmid Deputy Stage Manager Charlie Smalley Assistant Stage Manager Eloise Davis Producer Sophie Curtis The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon 19 Jun - 30 Aug 2026 Book Tickets Running time: 1hr 30mins with no interval About the play The plot Cast and creatives Related events Assisted Performances More Less About the play The plot Cast and creatives Related events Assisted Performances The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation In This Section About the play A fresh retelling of Shakespeare’s classic comedy of magic and mayhem, co-produced with the UK's leading children's theatre. 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