Actors From The London Stage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream September 23, 2010

Returning for the fifth year, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) is a theatrical tour de force beloved by the Wellesley community. This year, they will bring Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its lovers and lunatics to vivid life in the spare, elegant and inventive style of the company’s previous wildly successful productions of King Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet.

Formed 35 years ago, AFTLS is one of the oldest established touring companies in the world. Coming from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, AFTLS’s classically-trained actors devote a large part of their time to working with students. Their mission is simple: to bring exciting Shakespeare performed by fine professional actors to American colleges and universities in an extraordinary week of teaching and performing.