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Borderless 'Dream'; Shakespeare's comedy is transposed to India.(A Midsummer Night's Dream)(Theater review)
Byline: Carla Power
For Londoners, who live in a city where one in three inhabitants is foreign-born, there's nothing more banal than exotica. Except, perhaps, for yet another production of a Shakespeare comedy. So it's testimony to British director Tim Supple that even jaded Londoners are surprised by his rich and strange new production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which re-imagines the comedy as a bawdy romp through rural India. Athens becomes a village built on a stage of red earth hauled to North London from Rajasthan. Mismatched lovers couple and recouple in a jungle of bamboo scaffolding and scarlet silks. Most controversially, the dialogue tumbles out ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) June 9, 2006 700+ words
...MOUNTFORD A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM **** at The Swan, Stratford...folk plays" is how director Tim Supple describes Dream in his programme notes. Every...funded touring project, which has Supple overseeing a 23-person cast and...
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- Magazine article from: New Statesman Millard, Rosie March 26, 2007 700+ words
...This is such stuff as dreams are made on A multilingual...Midsummer Night's Dream Roundhouse, London...transformed for Tim Supple's visually ravishing...Midsummer Night's Dream. Supple devised this Dream in India, where it...
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- Newspaper article from: Windy City Times Sullivan, Catey December 3, 2008 700+ words
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...Shakespeare on stage. Let Tim Supple's words from the program...A Midsummer Night's Dream introduce one explanation...Seeing and hearing the Dream come alive in the seven...t honestly say that Supple's Dream "scoured clean" my...
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- Magazine article from: New Statesman Millard, Rosie May 14, 2007 700+ words
...adaptation of DBC Pierre's gruesome tale. A Midsummer Night's Dream Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Back in its original British theatre, Tim Supple's Dream from the Indian subcontinent.