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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's great shapeshifter by Michael Billington

This year's crop of Dreams " taking in Blitz spirit and colonial India " shows how Shakespeare's comedy is fertile ground for infinite interpretation. But it is Benjamin Britten's opera version that digs deepest into its inner strangenessWe are haunted this year by A Midsummer Night's Dream. I have seen three productions already, and missed three more, all of which were startlingly different. Erica Whyman's RSC produ…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AM on August 12, 2016

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