A Midsummer Night's Dream
Résumé
"The course of true love never did run smooth." This romantic comedy is set in an enchanted moonlit forest inhabited by meddlesome fairies, four young Athenian lovers and a troupe of amateur actors. Shakespeare’s enduring characters are set adrift in present-day Athens- but a present with a massive difference - an alternative history. Rigid class systems and ‘god given’ monarchies of the past have not been lost. Modern technologies meet ancient tradition ; and the citizens of Athens are frustrated by continuing restrictions and hierarchies. Only the forest, home to the fairies and fey spirits, can offer the illicit lovers what they seek.
