A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most tightly constructed plays. Productions that mess with the play’s structure risk creating a string of comic scenes that don’t hold together as a coherent whole. Thankfully, Peter Evans’s heavily cut and rearranged version for Bell Shakespeare doesn’t just avoid these pitfalls. It creates a play with a viewpoint and a clear storyline ... (read more)
John Severn
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John Severn teaches in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University. He is the author of Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical and the co-editor (with James Phillips) of Barrie Kosky’s Transnational Theatres and (with Ulrike Garde) of Theatre and Internationalization: Perspectives from Australia, Germany, and Beyond.