A Midsummer Night's Dream
Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario, 1976
Role: Theseus/Oberon

Jeremy moved to Canada in 1976 and performed in two productions of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival -- a theater extravaganza that spans six months each year.

He had the dual role of Theseus and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appeared as Mirabell in The Way of the World.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare that unites the worlds of mythological Greece, Elizabethan England and the fairy kingdom. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest.

The Canada Press noted in a Aug. 20, 1976, review that "Jeremy Brett was a commanding Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Oberon King of the Fairies." Jessica Tandy was Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and Titania, Queen of the Fairies. Her husband, Hume Cronyn played Bottom, a weaver who is transformed into an ass.

Wikipedia page about the play // Full text of the play