A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, RSC
The Dream: a riot with the kind of tenderness that you can almost feel on your fingertips 🎭
This is an enchantment of a production of Shakespeare’s popular play that tells the story of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons who are to be married.
It’s no slow burner, either. It announces its intentions from the opening bars of the jaunty soundtrack and bare stage.
If I’m honest, I got as much pleasure from the simple stagi…
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