Adaptation
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream needs little, if any, introduction. The tale of the four bewitched lovers, the enchanted forest, mischievous Puck and hapless Bottom is much loved around the world. This adaptation presents our characters against a Chinese background and blends traditional Chinese dramatic traditions with the world of digital technology enabling a range of bizarre and fantastic dream effects to be realised.
Click here to see short videos of the digital projections. These are projected onto the McEwan Hall organ gallery and paintings.
Images from the show
While the words of Shakespeare will be heard at times, Mandarin, mime and music will also be used to convey the emotions and dramatic action of the play. The addition of a digital dimension to the play’s inherent contrasts between illusion and reality, waking and dreaming, further highlights the question as to who really controls our fates.
