The MRC Shakespeare in the Park production of Midsummer Night's Dream is well worth sitting on the grass on Prince's Island this year. Across all the roles the cast is very strong. It is a real treat to see this play presented so effectively. Particularly enjoyable is having the actors double the roles of Thesus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titania - the first time I have seen this (Peter Brooks did it first in the last century).
As usual with this company, this is a very fresh and totally engaging reading of the play. If you go, it will be like seeing it for the first time again - how often do you get to be a virgin twice? Of course, that thought is part of the whole mix resulting from the collisions between power and ambition impacting politically correct sexuality and the sex drive hard wired into us that drives this play. The music of Queen, with its androgynous scope, fits naturally into the play as incidental music - a wonderful choice.
Go - you will chuckle, you will roar with laughter, and you will stand and cheer at the end.
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