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The Donkey Show
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 8:00p
Loeb Drama Center (American Repertory Theater): Oberon
Cambridge,
MA
If disco be the food of love...oh, wait, wrong play. In this splashy debut by new ART artistic director Diane Paulus, Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is transmogrified into a Studio 54-style phantasmagoria. Go ahead, try not to have a good time. Just try. -- Don Aucoin, Globe Staff
Shakespeare would be rolling over in his grave or boogieing with the crowd at "The Donkey Show," inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The American Repertory Theater production, conceived by Randy Weiner,… Show more
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Are you nostalgic for the disco era? Me neither. Yet even this hardened survivor of the polyester nightmare of the ’70s, that festival of bad taste and worse hairdos, managed to greatly enjoy “The Donkey Show,’’ a production by the American Repertory Theater that reimagines “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ as a disco phantasmagoria.
(Full review)In her first production as ART artistic director, Diane Paulus puts Shakespeare on the dance floor in ‘The Donkey Show’
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