When Will Shakespeare wanted to write about dreams ? in, for example, ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? ? he didn?t fool around. He took humans of all kinds ? from royals to young lovers to the blue-collar crowd ? and shoved them all into a forest, where strange sounds and sights are common.
He tossed in magical elements ? a potion from a flower that makes a sleeper fall in love with the first creature it sees on waking. Then he added a whole colony of forest creatures in the form of fairies, ruled by Fairy Queen Titania (Krystel Lucas) and her consort Oberon (Jay Whittaker).
?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? plays through Sept. 29 in repertory with ?The Merchant Of Venice? and ?Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead? at The Old Globe?s Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.
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