A Midsummer Night’s Dream Archives

Climate Change Shakespeare. “A Midsummer’s Tempest”

Posted by Margaret Rose | 18th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and...

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Conjures Dark Fantasies

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 6th Nov 2020 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Art

A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the makings of a fairy tale: a forest full of meddling fairies,...

“Re-Storying the Southside”: A Polynesian “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Posted by David O'Donnell | 7th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, New Zealand, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations

Dream The Black Friars Theatre Company, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland, 18-21 September 2019 Where...

Shax, The Hong Kong Theatre Group That Is Shaking Up Shakespeare

Posted by Zabrina Lo | 17th Jul 2019 | Adaptation, Hong Kong, News

Rosalind Wong didn’t plan to win the Hecklers Award 2016 for Best Director – but she did, walking...

Shakespeare and Asia

Posted by Michael Dobson | 25th May 2019 | Asia, Essay, Transcultural Collaborations

When a weary Egeon laments in the first scene of The Comedy of Errors that in quest of his lost...

Yukio Ninagawa, The Architect Of Cultural Crossroads

Posted by Corrie Tan | 20th Nov 2018 | Directing, Essay, Japan

Part of the Asian Theatremakers series I met the late Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa in 2013...

In “Midsummer” The Mobile Unit Delivers a Joyous Celebration of Life and Shakespeare

Posted by Michael Appler | 1st Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Joe Papp would be proud had he lived to see what his Mobile Theater had become: a brimming, joyous sanctuary of inclusivity and plurality, of Shakespearean excellence armed with subtle and striking mindfulness, no longer a struggling caravan of the American theater’s earliest pioneers, but a rag-tag group of brilliant players all the same.