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Swingin' the Dream, RSC, review: when Louis Armstrong was cast as Bottom as jazz met Shakespeare


Louis Armstrong starred in a very unusual production of A Midsummer Night s Dream
Credit: Haywood Magee
How heartening to see – shock! - a company of actors and musicians onstage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford again. Performing Shakespeare? It ain’t necessarily so.
On Saturday, for less than an hour, Swingin’ the Dream revisited a fascinating, little-known chapter of artistic fusion, when the Bard collided with the Jazz Age. In December 1939, Broadway briefly saw an epic version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream featuring an “integrated” company of more than 100. Louis Armstrong, cast as Bottom, shared top billing with “King of Swing” Benny Goodman, whose sextet tried to get the joint jumping. ....

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Get a flavour of RSC's new jazz-inspired Midsummer Night's Dream this weekend


Get a flavour of RSC s new jazz-inspired Midsummer Night s Dream this weekend
 | Updated: 09:31, 06 January 2021
The first item on the RSC programme in 2021 is a juicy one: a concert of work in progress from Swingin’ The Dream, a jazz-infused production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which ran on Broadway in 1939, and which is being livestreamed on Saturday at 7pm. Artistic director Gregory Doran calls from a riverside dressing room to tell Gill Sutherland about it and the mood at the theatre.
How is it in the building? Is it a bit sad?
It looks like a puppy that you’ve left at home for a rather long time during the day and it’s rather bleary-eyed but very, very pleased to see you. It’s just lovely to see everyone even though we are all wearing masks and are socially distanced. We’ve appointed among ourselves our own Covid marshals, because you do forget. You want to go and hug people but you can’t.You drop your guard at the end ....

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