Thanks to Lorna for scanning this photo of Joseph as Oberon, from yesterday's Independent on Sunday. 

There is another huge image on this blog, accompanied by a great review.

The production will be staged at the Royal Albert Hall on  Tuesday 21st July 2009, as part of the BBC Proms 2009. Apparently isome of it will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The Financial Times loved it and considered the production worth 4 stars.

The cast is huge. For the spoken play he has a full company of strong actors, led by Sally Dexter (pictured) and Joseph Millson as the predatory Titania and Oberon, and Desmond Barrit as a delightfully dead-pan Bottom hailing from the Welsh valleys. There is a hyperactive dance troupe, kitted out as harpy-like fairies. And the stage staff manning the scenic transformations and flying equipment must be on overtime.

The London Evening Standard awarded the production four stars.

But “I know a bank”, intones Oberon prophetically. By casting young people as singers and dancers, conductor William Christie and director Jonathan Kent ensure sexy physicality from characters clad or semi-clad fetchingly in white.

Paul Brown’s ingenious sets, ravishingly lit by Mark Henderson, sustain interest over a long evening, as do Kent’s inventive direction and Kim Brandstrup’s choreography. The randy rabbits and Thisbe’s errant false boob should go down well when this enjoyable show comes to the Proms on 21 July.

The Guardian gave the production five stars and highlighted Joseph's performance.

You can't fault the acting either, and Joseph Millson's gracefully sinister Oberon and Oliver Le Sueur's unusually sympathetic Demetrius are outstanding. The whole thing is a great achievement, and you're a fool if you miss it.

The Times gave it four stars.

For a start, the teeming cast includes a dozen fine actors, playing most of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream — albeit rewritten to suit cruder Restoration tastes. Sally Dexter is a terrifyingly furious Titania; Joseph Millson a sardonic, darkly handsome Oberon; and Desmond Barrit a blissfully funny Welsh windbag of a Bottom.