A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
... is about the unleashed, magical passion of the dreamworld set against the civilized order of Athens. Four plots: Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding, Fairy King Oberon and his Queen Titania's jealous feud, blundering mechanicals' botched play rehearsal, and four lost youth's love quadrangle serve as catalysts for Shakespeare's dreamscape.
Leaving the order of the Athenian play, director Jon Malmed sets the play in a nighttime music world of contemporary punk, rock and reggae.
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
more ... director's note
