A Midsummer’s Night Dream–The Public Theater
Opening Night: July 11, 2017
Closing: August 13, 2017
Theater: Delacorte Theatre
When the merry sprite Puck meddles with a magical love potion, young lovers lost in the woods mysteriously find themselves infatuated with the wrong person in this hilarious, fairytale fantasia that proves the course of true love never did run smooth. Lear deBessonet, Founder of The Public Theater’s groundbreaking Public Works program and Resident Director, brings her electric theatrical vision to the classic romance about the supernatural nature of love.
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July 31, 2017
Try as I might, I could not discern in the Public Theater’s Central Park production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” a single reference to Donald J. Trump. What a relief! Not that it would have been impossible to interpolate the president into the proceedings, as the Public’s “Julius Caesar” notably did earlier this summer; the play’s capaciousness makes nothing unlikely. If you wanted, you could discover auguries of almost any contemporary flash point in the great comedy: global warming, drug abuse, male privilege, transracial adoption.
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