A Midsummer Night's Dream

Synopsis

On a midsummer's night Hermia and her lover Lysander flee from Athens and Demetrius - the man Hermia's father favours as a son-in-law. Demetrius follows, pursued by Helena who loves him in spite of being spurned in favour of Hermia. On the same night Bottom and his friends leave Athens to find somewhere quiet to rehearse their play which is to be performed at the wedding feast of Duke Theseus. Drawn into the woods they enter a world of magic, mystery and wonder.

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USER: Whatsonstage.com - 19 April 2002:

I don't think the previous reviewer and I can have seen the same show. Where was the poetry? The beauty of the verse? The contrasts? It flatters this show to call it 'controversial', when all it is is a Turner-Prize-reject of a production flung at the audience without a thought for serving Shakespeare. I really don't mind the director's concept (though it left me cold) but I strongly object to textual ignorance, bad acting, lack of characterisation and witless, humour-free 'comedy' from a company that is blest with greater public subsidy than most other producing houses put together. I could scream. (And, by the way, Terri, we're supposed to be able to vote '0' when a show is bad, but your system doesn't actually allow for it. A shame, because I'd really like to suck this one into the minus category.) Job...

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