How appropriate that Queensland Ballet is playing A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 400th anniversary year of William Shakespeare's death. This is not the Royal Ballet's production by Frederick Ashton for London's 1964 celebrations of the Bard's birth but a co-production with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, which successfully staged the world première last year. The choreographer is Liam Scarlett, described by New York Times dance critic Roslyn Sulcas as 'the wonder boy of British ballet'. Scarlett, a graduate of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Ballet, is an emerging choreographer whose career took off like a rocket after his first major work, Asphodel Meadows (2010), led to his first outside commission by Miami City Ballet. Within two years the world was his oyster.