Midsummer Festival Wild Thyme Stories Wild Thyme Stories Video-story love songs to the natural world, inspired by Oberon’s words in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the personal paths we’ve travelled through lockdown. Act 2, Scene 1, A Midsummer Night's Dream I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight. Annette McLaughlin | Wild Thyme Story © RSC Browse and license our images Ben Caplan | Wild Thyme Story © RSC Browse and license our images Amy Trigg | Wild Thyme Story © RSC Browse and license our images Amelia Donkor | Wild Thyme Story © RSC Browse and license our images Zoe Lambert | Wild Thyme Story © RSC Browse and license our images Alice Blundell | Wild Thyme Stories © RSC Browse and license our images Amanda Hadingue | Wild Thyme Story © RSC Browse and license our images Launch Gallery Close Hide Thumbnails Share your own journeys with us using #MidsummerFestival You are in: Events Also in this section Also in this section Fairy Bower WorkshopA Marvellous Convenient PlacePyramus and Thisbe: date nightThe Mechanics of ActingFaerie Abduction: The Mechanicals' Untold StoryThe Merry WandererMidsummer Lullaby < Back to Midsummer Festival Wild Thyme Stories Video-story love songs to the natural world, inspired by Oberon’s words in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the personal paths we’ve travelled through lockdown. Watch the videos Fairy Bower Workshop Feel the magic of midsummer and camp out in your very own fairy bower. Find out more A Marvellous Convenient Place The Mechanicals are stuck in lockdown. They can’t rehearse their play in the forest so they’re trying out rehearsals on Zoom - “a marvellous convenient place.” Find out more Pyramus and Thisbe: date night Thisbe is having issues with her 3G whilst Pyramus has some bad news about their secret meeting spot. Join our star crossed lovers for their online date - just don’t tell their parents! Find out more The Mechanics of Acting Nicholas Bottom leads his students in an online workshop about the basics of acting. From animal work to beard work, he covers it all… just not very well. Find out more Faerie Abduction: The Mechanicals' Untold Story When a rural Amateur Dramatics Company mysteriously disappeared on Midsummer’s Eve, the only clues were a donkey and the strange tingle of magic in the air. Find out more The Merry Wanderer Oberon, the King of the Fairies, sends Puck to the other side of the world to bring back a magical purple flower. Watch Puck travel around the world to find it. Find out more Midsummer Lullaby Find yourself a cosy place in your fairy bower as, like Queen Titania, you are lulled to sleep by fairies Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed. Find out more You may also like