Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Synopsis: Video recording of A. J. Antoon’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival. F. Murray Abraham is Bottom.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 19 Mar 1988
Duration: 138 mins

Theatre: Public/Anspacher Theatre, New York, NY
Production type: Stage Recordings
Historical period: Victorian
Plays: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multicultural casting; New York Shakespeare Festival; Shakespeare Marathon (1987-1997)
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Stills: Frank Rich (op cit) writes - ‘The play’s setting has been moved from Athens to funkier Brazilian climes (turn-of-the-century Bahia), with the bossa nova beat of an offstage band often overriding the poetry’.
Reviews: Rich, Frank. New York Times (13 January 1988, p. 18). Rich writes - ‘By transforming the young lovers into starchy European colonials and the fairies into jungle spiritualists, this ''Dream’' is less a vision of romantic emancipation than an outsider’s gaga celebration of the liberating culture of the third world’.

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