Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is an intricate web of imagination and poetry, a rich mixture of folklore, flights of fancy, humor, wonder and homages to human nature. Its sheer breadth and depth call for a clear and consistent vision on the part of its director and that’s precisely what it has gotten from Ethan McSweeny in his novel, thoroughly unconventional Shakespeare Theatre Company production of “Dream.”
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” braids together three stories, all of which are related to the wedding of Theseus, the Duke of Athens (Tim Campbell), and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons (Sara Topham). The first story outlines the fates of four star-crossed lovers: Hermia (Amelia Pedlow) who loves Lysander (Robert Beitzel) and Helena (Christiana Clark) who loves Demetrius (Chris Myers).
