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The characters, meanwhile, are reality TV staples: the uptight queen bee beauty, the doting romantic, the self-centered cad, and the passive-aggressive weeper. The lovers, after all, provide the main plot, a plotline that could serve as a sitcom pilot today. Pond decided to mount A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Millbrook Playhouse's 50th Anniversary Season-the first pure Shakespeare production at the Mill Hall, Pa., theater in some four decades-she decided to make the lovers the play's centerpiece characters. However, when Producing Artistic Director Teresa K. It's the lovers en total that have dragged down many productions I've seen of Dream, despite their great brawl at the center of the play. Their behavior is somewhat sappy whether they are under a spell or not, and their plotline strains credulity even before fairy magic takes over. The lovers, on the other hand, seem to be merely serviceable. The fairies are like nothing else Shakespeare wrote in either poetry or presentation, and Puck is one of Shakespeare's most singular creations. The mechanicals are slapstick funny with their amateur production of Pyramus and Thisbe, and Bottom is one of Shakespeare's great creations. The challenge originates with Shakespeare's text and the disparate qualities of the three character groups. I concur-only once in 20 outings have I seen a production that succeeded with consistent oomph from the fairies, the rude mechanicals, and the Athenian lords. Theater director Ethan McSweeny commented as he was about to helm a production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., that the play's challenge is presenting all three plot strands and their distinct character types in equal strength. Saturday, July 20, 2013, Third row center in box theater
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To See a Voice and Hear a Face With Fairy Magic and Bottom's RoarĪ list of productions seen, including other versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream Productions of Midsummer Night's Dream On Screen:
Les Liaisons Dangereuses-Winning Sexual Conquests Losing the War The Country Wife-Original Wit and Corps de Excellence Wins the Play by a Country SmileĪ Mad World, My Masters-Art and Burlesque, Past, Present, and Future The Comedy of Errors-Lenny Henry Was the Drawing Card, But Adriana Played the Winning Hand Julius Caesar-A Julius Caesar for the Harry Potter AgeĬymbeline-A Cymbeline That Soars On the Magic of Great Stagecraft T he Winter's Tale-A Winter's Tale by the Book Women Beware Women-Acting the Fine Line of Absurdity The Knight of the Burning Pestle-A Play within a Play within a Play Much Ado About Nothing-The Devilry Is in the Details of This AdoĪll's Well That Ends Well-All's Swell and Ends WellĪs You Like It-Sucking the Melancholy OutĮquivocation-Shakespeare and the Art of Lying The Comedy of Errors-Doubling Doubles the Fun of a Comic Errors The Two Noble Kinsmen-This Is Some Seriously Crazy Stuff, ManĬardenio (Double Falsehood)-Wherefore Art Thou Shakespeare? The Two Gentlemen of Verona-Played off the Cuff, an Inconstant Play Reveals Its Deeper Theme of Constancy Twelfth Night-A Dying Fall Leads to What You Will Other incidents of misplaced affection On Stage: The Play's the Thing-A Class Project Projects Shakespeare Through the Minds of High Schoolers Growing Mendelssohn's Shakespearean Roots Nature Joins a Circus of Fairies For a Singular DreamĪ Midsummer Night's Dream: A Chamber Play-It's All in Your Head Stilts, Zany Deaths, and Shakespearean Truth T'expound on a Dream with Most Rare VisionĪ Dream of People, Puppets, and Imagination Other productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream On Stage: The characters, meanwhile, are reality TV staples.
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