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Price: $25 - $49
Phone: (617) 547-8300
Age Suitability:
18 and up
Tags:
theater, performance, music, club, cabaret, disco, shakespeare, entertainment, performing arts, fun, nightlife, american repertory theater, joan anderman, don aucoin, don aucoin dance
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, is a campy disco delight that tells Shakespeare's story though '70s classic including "We Are Family," "Car Wash," and "Last Dance." - June Wulff, Globe Staff
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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.
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In her first production as ART artistic director, Diane Paulus puts Shakespeare on the dance floor in ‘The Donkey Show’ (Full review)