PROPELLER RETURN!

Acclaimed all-male theatre company Propeller, will return to Newcastle Theatre Royal in April with revivals of their hugely successful productions of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Propeller’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has enchanted packed houses all over the world. Love and illusion collide when two pairs of lovers become entangled in fairy mischief on the eve of a Royal Wedding. Dreams and reality become interchangeable and romantic chaos ensues. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of estranged twins, separated at birth, find themselves in the same city 25 years later. A series of mistaken identities, assumed personas, and wild mishaps bring a family crisis – so complicated that time itself loses the plot – into focus. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Propeller regular Chris Myles will play Bottom, James Tucker returns to the company as Titania, queen of the fairies, with Darrell Brockis as her king, Oberon. Joseph Chance and Dan Wheeler will play the twin Antipholus brothers in The Comedy of Errors, with Propeller debutants Matthew McPherson and Will Featherstone as their respective long-suffering twin servants, both called Dromio. The full company includes David Acton, Darrell Brockis, Joseph Chance, Alasdair Craig, Will Featherstone, Dominic Gerrard, Lewis Hart, Matthew McPherson, Chris Myles, Matthew Pearson, Richard Pepper, James Tucker, Dan Wheeler, Arthur Wilson. All members of the company will appear in both productions. Both productions are directed by Propeller’s artistic director Edward Hall and designed by Michael Pavelka, with lighting design by Ben Ormerod and sound by David Gregory. The texts are adapted by Edward Hall and Roger Warren. Propeller’s productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Comedy of Errors premiered in 2008/9 and 2010/11 respectively. Edward Hall’s all-male company will have you rolling in the aisles and leave you breathless with disbelief with this contrasting pair of comedies. Education packs will be available to download from Propeller’s website: http://www.propeller.org.uk/education Propeller appears at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 April. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Wed, Thu & Sat 7.30pm, Thu 2pm. The Comedy of Errors – Tue & Fri, 7.30pm, Sat 2pm.  Tickets are available from £9.00 (a booking fee of 95p - £1.95 will apply to most tickets) and can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21 or select your own seat and book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk