So last night we went to see the new version of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Lyric Theatre. Designed and staged by Filter, it both dramatically messes up and is wholly faithful to the original. With a mystery Bottom.
I would very, very much recommend that you buy, beg, borrow or steal tickets to go and see it. Oh, and organise one for me too - I'd definitely go again.
Of course, AMND is pretty much proof against failure, so long as you have a bunch of actors and some kind of idea. But this is remarkable and wonderful.
Michael Billington admired it in The Guardian too, but don't read his review - too many spoilers. He also writes that It may be a Dream best enjoyed by those who know the play backwards - which I think is wrong, from the audience I saw. Go, now, and see what you think
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