This year the Sydney Shakespeare Festival is putting on A Midsummer’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, very different yet possibly two of Shakespeare’s most famous and popular plays in Glebe’s Bicentennial Park.
Putting on two plays at once is incredibly challenging both for the actors and the production team, with two nights of one play then two nights of the other, each week. John Michael Burdon, who is playing Oberson, Theseus and Capulet this year admits to having moments as he’s getting into his costume of having to check, which play are we doing tonight? Then there’s the volume of lines that the actors must learn.
