Theater
May, 1971
Centuries have encrusted A Midsummer Night's Dream with gossamer, cobwebs and layer upon layer of whimsy. Now comes Peter Brook to clean off the clutter and reveal the play afresh. It is as if the author's agent had just placed it with England's Royal Shakespeare Company and it had been given to the group's most inventive director. Brook merges characters, strips bare the foliage, puts Puck on a trapeze, turns fairy dust into twirling juggler's plates and trees into twisting sculptural coils, tr...
