Scenes from a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet will be played out in front of the paintings inspired by these works: Titania and Bottom and Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers by Henry Fuseli, Head of a Man by John Simpson and Queen Mab’s Cave by JMW Turner.
Here are some images with captions for a taste of what's to come:
William Blake
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing
(c.1786)
Tate
Unknown artist, Britain
A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton
(1569)
Tate
James Barry
King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia
(1786–8)
Tate
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt
Ophelia
(1851–2)
Tate
William Holman Hunt
Claudio and Isabella
(1850)
Tate
Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom c.1790
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Queen Mab’s Cave
(exhibited 1846)
Tate
Henry Fuseli Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers exhibited 1812
Performance Times
13.00: Romeo and Juliet, room 1840
14.00: Midsummer Night’s Dream, room 1780
15.00: Othello, room 1810
16.00: Macbeth room 1780
Scenes courtesy of Spearshaker Theatre and Timezone Theatre with performances by Alice White, Allie Kaufman, Megan Smith, Tessa Hart and Shane Noone and direction by Kate Brockett and Pamela Schermann.
You can also take yourself on a trail of our other Shakespeare inspired works in Tate’s Collection.
