The costume for Titania was designed by Sally Jacobs and worn by Sara Kestelman in Peter Brook's legendary 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The production, with its white box, bright primary colours, trapezes, and unequivocal sexual approach proved a huge hit with audiences, first at Stratford and London and on subsequent tours around the world.

In this production the same actress played the roles of Titania and Hippolyta. Sara Kestelman was the original Titania/Hippolyta and wore the dress for the performances in Stratford, London and New York, and on the subsequent US tour in 1971. The Museum owns the design for the costume, along with the designs for several other characters, the set model, and various stage properties, including the famous spinning plate that represented the magic flower. It also holds two costumes from the 1972-73 World Tour, worn by Patricia Doyle. The World Tour was substantially recast. Doyle played a Fairy and understudied Gemma Jones, who took over the roles of Titania and Hippolyta.

Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream used a bare white box set in which the play's magic was created through circus tricks: the fairies wore simple, brightly coloured, costumes suggested by those of Chinese acrobats and swung in on trapezes. Puck confounded the lovers while balanced on stilts and juggled a spinning plate to represent the magic flower. Brook swept away the theatrical traditions and much of the 'prettiness' that had become associated with the play and, in redefining A Midsummer Night's Dream for the 1970s, exerted an enormous influence on subsequent productions.