Chris Bush's

A Dream

Writer
Chris Bush

Director
Chelsea Walker

Location
The Sainsbury Theatre

Dates
Thursday 27 November at 7pm
Saturday 29 November at 7pm
Monday 1 December at 2pm*
Tuesday 2 December at 7pm
Wednesday 3 December at 2pm

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*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.

About the show

Packed with songs, mischief and mistaken identities, this riotous and joyful play transports Shakespeare’s most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital.

Romeo and Jules are recovering from an accidental overdose, Antony and Cleo are reminiscing in the waiting room, and Beatrice and Benedict are bickering over the cause of the latter’s knee operation.​

As night falls on A&E, and Pharmacist Puck starts to dole out medicine, a very midsummer madness begins to take root. 

Chelsea is an award-winning director, working in theatre and on screen. In 2017 she won the RTST Sir Peter Hall Award and toured her critically acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire around the UK.

She has twice been a finalist for the JMK Directors Award, winning the runner up prize in 2016; has twice been nominated for an Off West End Best Director Award; and twice nominated for a UK Theatre Award.

In 2016 she was a director on the Old Vic 12. She is a reader for the Bruntwood Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Chelsea has just finished post-production on her short film LATCH. Her first short film GOBBLE written by Anoushka Warden premiered at Funny Life Film Festival and will be screened at British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin. 

Chris Bush is a playwright, lyricist and theatre-maker.

Her plays include: Otherland (Almeida Theatre, London, 2025); Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist written with Matt Winkworth (Rose Theatre, Kingston, 2024); an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House (Sheffield Theatres, 2024); Rock/Paper/Scissors (Sheffield Theatres, 2022); an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 2022); (Not) the End of the World (Schaubühne, Berlin, 2021); Hungry (Paines Plough, 2021); Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre, London, 2020); Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong, Lyric Hammersmith & Birmingham Rep, 2020); The Last Noël (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2019); Standing at the Sky's Edge, a musical with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley (Sheffield Theatres, 2019, revived 2022 and at the National Theatre in 2023, West End 2024); The Changing Room (National Theatre Connections, 2018); Steel(Sheffield Theatres, 2018); an adaptation of Pericles (National Theatre, London, 2018); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, written with Matt Winkworth (Theatr Clwyd, 2018); What We Wished For and A Dream.

Contains themes of drugging, spiking and intoxication with reference to suicide by overdose. Minor depictions of violence and blood. 

This play is set in a hospital environment, with actors portraying both staff and patients experiencing a range of illnesses.  

Original songs featuring lyrics by Chris Bush & music by Russell Hepplewhite.

Booking

Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines here.

Members of the industry: secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office​​​ on [email protected]

Pricing and concessions 

Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker's Allowance. You'll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.

Accessibility 

If you have any additional requirements, you would like us to be aware of, please contact box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Booking your tickets 

Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Industry booking 

If you're a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets. 

Group tickets 

We're pleased to offer discounted tickets to groups of 10+ people. Standard tickets are discounted to £9 per person, while under 18's tickets are discounted to £5 per person. To book, please contact [email protected]

E-Tickets

There is no need to collect tickets. You will be send an E-Ticket via email which you can present on arrival.

Refunds 

Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.

Creative Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Director 
Chelsea Walker*

Designer 
Elliot Squire*

Producer
Rebecca Lyle*

Assistant Producer 
Bobby Harding*

Movement & Intimacy Director 
Nicoletta Bonanni*

Musical Director 
James Michalos*

Lighting Designer
Ace Turner 

Sound Designer
Megan Parker 

Cast

Ferdinand / Ben / Vine
Rashaan Asante

Demetrius / Starling / Rajesh / Liam
Saqib Bashir

Hermia / Sara / Ivy / Matron
Jordan Copeland

Romeo / Orlando / Antony / Rowan / Dean
Oliver Davies

Hippolyta / Tatiana 
Hannah Dickson

Sebastian / Aster / Adam 
Malachi Edwards

Miranda / Viola / Beatrice / Nurse 
Allaya Hagigal

Celia / Cleo / Ariel / Harriet / Poppy / Mollie
Alecoe Haughey 

Helena / Flute
Katie Hutchings

Puck / Snug / Valerie 
Kathleen Irvine 

Rosalind / Quince / Antonia / Rita
Alex Keenan 

Lysander / Orson / Eric
Francis William Lie

Egeus / Director / Prospero / Snout / Sean 
Kai Mason 

Theseus / O'Brien / Benedick
Joshua McCoy  

Jules / Ramsbottom
Cathal Ó Síocháin

Singer / Assistant / Berry / Abigail / Cassie
Virginia Richardson

Production Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Stage Manager 
Sofia Altamirano

Deputy Stage Manager
Danielle Small

Assistant Stage Managers
Sophie Robinson
Will Smith

Production Manager
Amelia Thorpe

Production Lx
Alex Hoppe

Deputy Lx / Programmer
Patrick McAneny

Production Sound Engineer / Green Captain 
James Knight

Dep PSE
Nazaire Kilborne-Appiah

Production Carpenter / Head of Stage Caspar Edwards

Lighting Technicians
Izzie Davies
Max Goodwin
Rowan Lemonsky
Elaine Redshaw
Sara Salanki
Josh Short
Keira Waring
Gray Wills

Sound Technicians
Roz Baglow
Harry Goff
Sonny Hooper
Jack Moodie

Construction Crew
Phoebe Ford
Sam Haddock
Erin Mitchell
Will Mulhearn
Tilly Riley
Izzy Scholes
Marcus Walton
Jaimie Westwell