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Inside the lush Greece forests, Shakespeare writes about the Mid-Summer Night's Dream, which contains the love story between the young aristocrats who love through the lush Greek forests. It is the Greek that brings together the stories of lovers about a series of events that Shakespeare recounts about the story of unrequited love and active vital life as well as the meeting of different identities.
ultimately can't reconcile the distracting awkwardness that comes with placing these characters and dialogue into this setting. The result feels lost in translation.
Though no one stands out in the ensemble, everyone does a fantastic job of wrapping their mouths around Shakespeare's dialogue and giving it a present-day spin.
If you're hoping to see a production just like the one that would have been done in 1596, this ain't it. But Mott's version is a hell of a good time in its own right.
Mott's "Midsummer Night's Dream" may not have a high bar to reach to be better than average as filmed Shakespearean comedies go. But by any standard, it's a modest, resourceful and unexpected delight.