Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestTheo and Polly have come to Dream Park to celebrate their daughter Hermia's engagement. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and the night ahead holds revelations, fairies, transformations and plenty of love juice.
Writing
Bowker's adaptations respect the verse while making it dangerously contemporary.
Acting
Career-launching turns from actors who'd dominate prestige TV for decades.
Production
Manchester never looked this mythic or this miserable.
Creator
Peter Bowker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
James McAvoy's Macbeth performance predated his Hollywood breakthrough by mere months — this is basically his origin story.
This series arrived at peak 'Shakespeare modernized' fever, but where 10 Things and O were American teen fantasies, this was Thatcher's children getting bloody in council estates.
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