(from left) Jacqui Dupré as Peaseblossom, Karen Aldridge as Titania, Maggie Walters as Moth, and Camilla Leonard as Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the best Shakespearean tradition, the main stage remains largely bare throughout the show. The Old Globe not only preserves the carefully crafted dream-logic ambience, but enhances it with David Israel Reynoso and Stephen Strawbridge’s background features, lighting, and costumes. This is Director Patricia McGregor’s second time directing The Dream in San Diego (she directed the 2018 Globe for All tour).She cited San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel movies, Alexander McQueen, Burning Man, and Afro-punk as inspirations that went into the set, costuming, and staging of this expanded production.Īcknowledged as one of Shakespeare’s greatest masterpieces, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (often called The Dream for short) is written to reflect a dream in the way it abruptly jumps between scenes, people, and circumstances, seamlessly melding the realistic with the improbable. Purposely designed with both traditional features and an Afrofuturism aesthetic, the comic book-esque opening fight sequence both provides background and sets the tone for one of Shakespeare’s most mad-cap adventures. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Old Globe reimagines The Dream with a contemporary beat.įeaturing a DJ and contemporary, American-English asides, the brightly-colored spectacle makes Shakespeare accessible for anyone. Part of a continuing crescendo of award-worthy, diversely-cast shows, W. New (as of 2021) Globe Resident artists Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, James Vasquez, and Patricia McGregor were all part of the initiative, and have not disappointed. In 2020, while most were moldering in the lockdown, The Old Globe took major steps to shift into true inclusivity with their “What Is Theatre Now?” initiative. Thanks to The Old Globe, we can no longer say nothing good came out of the ongoing CoVId-19 pandemic.
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