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2 unusual facts about The Fiddler's Dream


The Fiddler's Dream

All tracks composed by Barry Dransfield except "The Alchemist and the Pedlar" by Robin and Barry Dransfield and "It's Dark in Here" by Robin Dransfield.

The Fiddler's Dream is a folk / folk-rock album by Dransfield, a short-lived group principally comprising the Dransfield brothers, Robin and Barry.


Alison Whyte

She has also worked in theatre, with stage roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing.

Andrew Blackman

Andrew Blackman is Artistic Director of Complete Works Theatre Company, directing and producing Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Man for All Seasons, Cosi and The Crucible, Phat Poetry and Monkey Fights the Water Dragon.

Arnold Voketaitis

Voketaitis remained a regular performer with the NYCO up through 1981, singing such roles as Creon in Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, Giorgio Germont in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, and Theseus in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream among others.

Barry Robins

In Colorado, he also had the speaking role of Puck in Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a few cameos at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Christine McKenna

Upon graduating, she appeared in productions for the National Theatre and in the West End of London, including Stephen Sondheim´s A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Great Expectations, and played "Polly" in The Boy Friend with Glynis Johns, "Sally Bowles" in Cabaret, and "Moll" in Moll Flanders.

Christopher Bowen

Other theatre credits include the title role in "Macbeth" at the Southwark Playhouse, Laertes in "Hamlet" at the Young Vic, Veit Kunz in "Franziska" at the Gate Theatre, Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the City of London Festival, Maecenas in "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Haymarket Theatre.

Ed Brigadier

He appeared many times on The History Channel, most memorably as Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil in the miniseries The War That Made America - The Story of the French and Indian War, and acted on stage in such plays as The Imaginary Invalid, A Servant of Two Masters, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Evolution's Dream

The events in this book follow on from those in The Temporal Void.

Festival of Arts and Ideas

In 2013, the Festival continued its tradition of presenting important local, national, and international premieres including the US Premiere of a new production of A midsummer night's dream, a collaboration between Bristol Old Vic (England) in association with Handspring Puppet Company (South Africa).

Glenn Simon

Among Simon’s many stage appearances are The Brewery Follies, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Kelie McIver, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, and Mark Ringer’s production of The Alchemist at the Globe Playhouse.

Harry Denford

The Cherry Orchard at The Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks and in 2009 he was asked to direct the somewhat 'eyebrows' raised from the purist mid winter production of Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare's The Rose (theatre) on London's Bankside.

Henry Herford

Notable among his roles are the Count (The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo and Alfonso (Cosi Fan Tutte), the title role in Don Giovanni, Germont (La Traviata), Silvio (I Pagliacci), Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Smirnov (William Walton's The Bear), and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream), which he recorded for Virgin Records.

Hunter Valley Grammar School

Throughout the years Hunter Valley Grammar has put on a variety of productions including: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Oh, What a Lovely War!; The Wizard of Oz; Hamlet; Moonlight Avenue; Death by Chocolate; Blabbermouth; Friday Knight Fever; A Midsummer Night's Dream; and High School Musical starring Georgia Murray and Bryce Thomas.

Ian Gallanar

He has directed a number of productions with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysistrata, The Front Page, As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and many others.

János Arany

He translated three dramas of Shakespeare into Hungarian, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and King John, and they are considered to be some of the greatest translations into Hungarian in history; he also helped other Hungarian translators with his comments, and translated works by Aristophanes, Mikhail Lermontov, Aleksandr Pushkin, and Molière.

John Conklin

He is the artistic advisor for Boston Lyric Opera where his work has included Lucia de Lammermoor (2005) and Brittens's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2011).

Jörg Fischer

Marcel Jacob (ex-Talisman; ex-Last Autumn's Dream) shared the bass guitar duties on the album with Magnus Rosén (ex-HammerFall) and Per Stadin (renowned in Sweden for his band Silver Mountain).

Judy GeBauer

After graduation, she appeared as Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra at Marin Shakespeare Festival, in productions of Twelfth Night (Viola), King Lear, Richard III (Jane Shore), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mustardseed) at California Shakespeare Festival.

Lee Hongki

Hongki later played the role of Lysander in a Korean musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream where he showed and excelled in his hidden skills in singing, acting and dancing.

Love Hunters

Milan Mumin wrote soundtracks for two theater plays: August Strindberg's Miss Julie and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, performed in Novi Sad.

Lucton School

Recently, the Senior School has produced "Daisy Pulls It Off", "Teechers", "A Christmas Carol" and "Hi-de-Hi!"; the Middle School has offered "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Toad of Toad Hall", "The Phantom Tollbooth" and "Wyrd Sisters"; Prep School productions have included "Cinderella and Rockerfella" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream", whilst the Nursery produces a traditional Nativity each year.

Marchy Lee

On 13 July 2007, Marchy was announced as the driver for a new team set up by Adrian Fu to compete in the remainder of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia series under the banner "Racing for Charity", in help increase the profile and visibility of the Child's Dream Foundation.

Minack Theatre

In 1929, a local village group of players had staged Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in a nearby meadow at Crean, repeating the production the next year.

Mr. Buechner's Dream

The "Mr Buechner" referred to in the title is Pulitzer Prize nominated author Frederick Buechner, who has been a major inspiration on the band's lyrics for years.

Nichols Arboretum

In recent summers, the Arb has been the site of dramatic performances of Shakespearean plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labour's Lost; the June 2012 production was The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Paraziții

Paraziții tracks were featured on movie soundtracks like "Nordrand" (Austria), "Visul lui Liviu" (Liviu's Dream), "Milionari de weekend" (Weekend Millionaires) or "Marfa și banii" (The Goods and The Money).

Pointe shoe

They are normally worn by female dancers, though male dancers may wear them for unorthodox roles such as the ugly stepsisters in Cinderella, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, or men performing as women in dance companies such as Les Ballets Trockadero and Grandiva.

Queen Seondeok of Silla

She was portrayed by actresses Nam Ji Hyeon and Lee Yo-won in MBC's Queen Seondeok, which was first broadcast in 2009, and by Park Joo Mi and Hong Eun-hee in the 2012 KBS drama Dream of the Emperor.

Randy Weiner

In collaboration with Paulus, Weiner co-created The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which ran off-Broadway from 1999 to 2005 and was revived in 2009 for Paulus' first production as director of the American Repertory Theater.

Sarah Saltzberg

She has appeared off-Broadway as Helen in The Donkey Show, Cherry in Sinfully Rich, as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in her one-woman show Dear Diary (Broadway Spotlight Series, Ars Nova), as well as throughout NYC in long-form improv comedy with the Upright Citizen's Brigade.

ShakespeaRe-Told

Despite their own disagreements, the fairy rulers of the woods around Dream Park, Titania (Sharon Small) and Oberon (Lennie James), have a duty to ensure a happy ending, so Oberon gets Puck (Dean Lennox Kelly) — portrayed as a sort of magical wide boy — to try to sort things out with "love juice" eyedrops, while Oberon and Theo discuss their marriages.

Shelley Malil

He is the recipient of a Clio Award (for the Budweiser beer commercials) and a Los Angeles Ovation Award as Best Featured Actor for his performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and he was nominated for the Los Angeles Ovation Award for his performance in subUrbia.

Simon Ball

His repertoire includes Prince in The Sleeping Beauty, the slave in Le Corsaire, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the prince in Cinderella, Albrecht in Giselle, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Basilio in Don Quixote, Siegfried in Swan Lake, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Vershinin in Winter Dreams, and Ivan in The Firebird.

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz

He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1929, making his theatrical debut at 21 November that year as Francis Flute in the Vilnius Municipal Theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Sue Holderness

She began her acting career with Manchester’s 69 Theatre Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peer Gynt and as Desdemona in Catch My Soul (Jack Good’s rock-musical version of Othello).

Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret

He is also a guest singer in the single version of the song "The Magic of the Wizard's Dream".

The King's Dream

The story is based on the life of Muyeol, 29th Monarch of Silla and Kim Yusin, who later became one of the greatest generals in the history of Korea.This drama also highlights the story of Princess Deokman,who later became Queen Seondeok,the first female monarch in Korean history.

The Prince's Dream

The Prince’s Dream is a fable written by Jean Ingelow as part of The Wonderbox Tales collection.

The Ragpicker's Dream

The first song, "Why Aye Man", was used as the theme tune for the third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet which first aired in 2002.

Why Aye Man was the theme music for the third, comeback, season of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 2002, and its lyrics are based upon the same premise that the original series was based upon – that of Geordie tradesmen during the Thatcher years, going abroad to find work in Germany.

The Skipper's Dream

When this was coupled with the threat of invasion by Napoleon and the Roman Catholic French it caused even more concern and led to a sudden and alarming increase in the number of Orange Lodges.

Thomas Hemsley

In 1960 he created the role of Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the English Opera Group at Aldeburgh.

Tilly Losch

Outside the Opera, Losch took modern dance class with Grete Wiesenthal and Mary Wigman, and performed dramatic and movement roles in Viennese theaters, at the Salzburg Festival and in Max Reinhardt's 1924 Berlin production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, also choreographing for the Shakespeare play.


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