Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Midsummer Night's Dream at Quincy House...
...left a little befuddled. But all in all that doesn't matter. Hart Perry's cinematography is excellent--it could hardly be better--and the music is tremendous, all old union songs. Harlan County, USA stands as a testimonial to a people and a struggle that the American dream somehow forgot; Kopple's film stands as a great documentary. It inruriates without becoming polemic, capturing a simple courage that brings admiration. This is a film bade by a leftist, and come from a leftist perspective, but it's not merely that. It's a stroy that catches you up because...
...center of the new Adams-Quincy House production of A Mid-summer Night's Dream is the lush poetry of Shakespeare and images of reverie and nightmare woven together carefully, like a speall. In Titania's bower, the faries who also appear as courtiers in the opening coreographed scenes and set the eerie tone of the show, develop insect-like personalities. And in a long, wicked laugh, the dark underside of Puck is revealed. The elaborate production has been weaved together by the people who brought The Beggar's Opera to Adams House last year. In the stage's flood...
...Midsummer Night's Dream at Quincy House...
Once in the fantastic wood, the balance of dream and nightmare, and the corresponding balance of the two directorial approaches, becomes evident. The second act opens with a fairy dance, choreographed by Cynthia Raymond. As dissonant, atonal music fills the room, dancers gyrate on stage, suggestively entwined. This sequence, no doubt intended to lend an erotic and Dionysian flavor to the production, never fully involves the audience; it is contrived and artificial...