A Midsummer Night's Dream
1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101
Cost: $29 - $97
Entry-level Shakespeare. Director Ian Talbot has spun the comedy in an unsentimental direction: A Clockwork Orange, marinated in things punk (including Puck), and performed with freaked-out fright wigs. Everyone talks tough — and loud. The concept might work if the cast wasn't working so hard. The result has inventive moments (as when Winslow Corbett's Hermia gets tossed off the rear stage; or when Oberon sniffs on the "love in idleness flower" and trips out), but it's too heavy-handed and the incessant huffing and puffing takes a toll. [Note: the play runs in repertory with The Merchant of Venice and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.]
When
Ongoing until Sunday, September 29, 2013
Hours
| Sundays, 8pm |
| Tuesdays, 8pm |
| Wednesdays, 8pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 8pm |