by Samuel L. Leiter In 1970 Peter Brook revolutionized stagings of A Midsummer Night's Dream by stripping away the encrustations of romanticist directors and designers, placing the play in a bright white box, abandoning conventional props, music, and costumes, and emphasizing the play's circus-like elements. The romanticist tradition remains firmly entrenched, as witness Julie Taymor's […]
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:10AM on September 28, 2015