A Midsummer Night's Dream

With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the usual trickle of film adaptations of the Bard's work is becoming a small flood, and director Michael Hoffman has assembled a cast of leading stage and screen actors for this ...more

Brimming with fairies, sex, love potions, transformations, and slightly malevolent forays into matchmaking, +A Midsummer Night's Dream leaves its interpreters with much to work with. Its already preposterous nature allows for quite a bit of tweaking, and the play has often fallen victim to ill-fated flights of directorial whimsy. Michael Hoffman, in an effort to showcase the decadent nature of +A Midsummer Night's Dream, changed its original location in ancient Greece to a more sensual 19th ...more