Monday, April 11, 2011
Variations on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ around
The Boston Globe: "“A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ may or may not be Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. This spring it’s definitely his most popular work around Boston — in one form or another.
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I feel like the overproduction of certain Shakespeare pieces can mean one of three things. Either the piece is a timeless classic which can be reinvented time and time again without ever losing its luster, we just assume that the piece is timeless but just decide to do it because we would rather do something that is easy to adapt than one of Shakespeare's more challenging works, or a combination of the two. Midsummer has been changed so many times that the piece is more often performed in a rave or on the moon than in an Athenian forest. Not that adaptation is a bad thing, but you don't see people adapting Hamlet to take place in some obscure setting like a disco party. All I'm trying to say here is that perhaps there are some things that are better left unadapted, or with as little adaptation as necessary... (This isn't about our production of Midsummer at all, I feel like that adaptation was appropriate for the majority of the show).
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