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...first act of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Lysander tells Hermia, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Likewise, the course towards a stunning performance of the ballet adapted from this play is full of potholes and detours...
...quartet of lovers. The rivals Demetrius and Lysander come into the forest armed with flick knives. Later, under the influence of a love potion, they are ready to fight and die for love of Helena, whom hours before they both had ignored, and are almost willing to kill Hermia, to whom they both had sworn undying devotion. Even after a restorative drug has returned them to orderly pairings, all four eye one another uneasily: they have lost the sweet certainty of first love. At the curtain call, the pairs come out again mismatched. Only as they start...
There were bright spots in the production worth mentioning, however. Newly-promoted soloist Sarah Lamb was a beautiful Hermia. Her acting skills met the requirements of the role, and her dancing showed great technique and artistry...
...fate of Anna Friel's character, Hermia, to get rather lost in so-so productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and sure enough, that's what happens in Michael Hoffman's adaptation, which oxymoronically manages to seem both leaden and hasty. Reset for no discernible reason from ancient Athens to 19th century Tuscany, it focuses on the fun stuff--the fairies who inhabit the damp but enchanted wood, the rude mechanicals (led by Kevin Kline's hammy but well-cured Bottom) and their awful-wonderful production of Pyramus and Thisbe...
...into the forest--is equally well-played by its four talented and entertaining actors. Tom Davidson '99 and Jeremy Salfen '00 are quite good as the hot-headed and hapless suitors Lysander and Demetrius and the more challenging women's roles are excellently filled by Monica Henderson '99 as Hermia and Elena Schneider '99 as Helena. If the men's roles are supposed to be almost interchangeable, then the women must play off each other's differences, and Henderson and Schneider work well together. Their portrayals of strong but lovelorn maidens, vacillating between sincerity and over-the-top silliness...