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...seen “The Donkey Show” will tell you: it’s bat-shit crazy. The concept sounds like something from the world’s campiest, most hallucinogen-happy comedy improv troupe: “Alright, darling, I want ‘A Midsummer??s Night Dream’ told in the style of ’70s disco—with roller skates, and glitter, and no pants...
...program note, director Benjamin Evett references “the secret play” that lies within a traditional reading of “Midsummer??: “[It] exists somewhere within the confluence of all these people and these ingenious words.” The idea of confluence, unfortunately, does not apply to the confused design of this production. Evett has attempted to urbanize the play, but his concept does not translate to the stage effectively...
Spatially, the production feels muddled as well. “Midsummer?? unfolds in Midway Studios, a multi-level space replete with brick walls and fascinating architecture. It’s a venue that abounds with creative possibilities, which makes the use of space in this production feel underwhelming and conventional. John Malinowski’s lighting fails to help delineate spaces or clarify locations, the exception being an electrifying sequence in which Puck (Maurice Emmanuel Parent) enters the nighttime forest under eerie, deep-blue backlight...
...Richard II” is already a staple of the Shakespeare performance circuit, according to Associate Professor of History and Literature Blair G. Hoxby. “Although the play is not performed as often as ‘Hamlet’ or ‘A Midsummer??s Night Dream,’ [sic] it is widely respected and quite frequently performed,” he writes in an email. So why is there a need for a 21st-century overhaul? For the producers and director of this new adaptation, the answer is simple: the 1595 version...
...Carling is originally from Sweden, and Ms. Perry has taken Swedish classes since her first year of college to enable her to converse with Mr. Carling in two languages. One midsummer??s night in Stockholm, during one of the couple’s numerous trips to Scandinavia, Mr. Carling proposed. Although Swedish convention involves the “egalitarian” exchange of gold bands, Ms. Perry says her fiancé followed the American fashion of presenting her with a diamond engagement ring because “he knew I would want that...
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