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A Midsummer Nights Dream
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The Public Reviews
Michael Gray - 24th February 2011
The Hollywood “Dream” is not a new idea. Shakespeare’s Globe tour a year or two back had Quince and Bottom in the Directors’ Chairs. This time, in a brilliantly sustained conceit, it’s Robin P Goodfellow, mischievously manipulating the mortals in an affectionate look at the star-studded Sixties in tinsel town.
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East Anglian Daily Times
Andrew Clarke - 23rd February 2011
One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that his plays are supremely adaptable. They can be set and made to fit into almost any period in history.
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One Suffolk
Glen Pearce - 23rd February 2011
A Midsummer Night's Dream is arguably Shakespeare's most adaptableplay. Dream's magical and mythical elements lend themselves toimaginative staging and, in the hands of one of the country's mostimaginative theatre companies, Headlong, the pairing seems ideal.
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Whatsonstage.com
Simon Cole
Billed as a radical re-imagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream I approached Headlong’s new production with some trepidation. Having seen many of the bard’s finest plays shoe-horned into a variety of weird and wacky settings with varying degrees of success, my more traditionalist sensibilities regularly take a battering. But, following on from their critically acclaimed production of King Lear, starring the late Pete Postlethwaite, I had high hopes that this first rate company would yet surprise and delight.