ALT B: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Pillow forts, fairy lights, potions and magic.

This all-female reading of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will show you how girlhood can change the world.

On Sat 21 June, Compass Collective will be holding a number of simultaneous readings and performances of this iconic Shakespeare play to raise money for Refugee Week.

The theme this year is “Community as a Superpower”; so the creators of this show decided to draw inspiration from the community they know best.

In addition to poverty and other issues that all refugees may face, female refugees face an added layer of oppression from gender discrimination. And yet, despite everything that makes being a woman, or underrepresented gender, difficult, there is something beautifully unique and magical about “girlhood” – even when this is something that is discovered as an adult.