A Midsummer Night's Dream Reviews

Vinny Thomas from London, England

EMBARRASSINGLY AWFUL

There are a couple of positives: Michelle Terry - who is a great actress - portrays Puck wonderfully: full of twitchy, quirky gestures and mannerisms. Secondly, the scene where Puck misleads Lysander & Demetrius in the forest is very well done. Sadly, the rest of it is dire. Firstly, there is a ‘woke’, politically correct angle, which is a distraction and detracts from the play. The casting is a paradigm of inclusion - which is a laudable ambition - but this seems to be the main preoccupation of the director - not the play itself, which suffered in the confused way it was presented (somebody not familiar with the play would struggle to know what’s going on!). Also the quality of acting was poor - little more than a glorified school GCSE performance. Finally, the night I saw it, there were a couple of absences in the cast - so two last minute stand ins were ‘reading’ from the script. I know this is not the fault of the actors - but it did add to the disappointment of the evening.

Sebastian Tyler from London, England

AWFUL

It was a truly awful production .The acting was flat, amateur and almost every line delivered in angry, largely incoherent flurries.It was basically like watching a badly acted G.C.S.E exam piece, resplendent in its tired wokery .This is the Globe ? ...embarresing .The director has invested all her energy on desperately trying to create a vibrant, colorful cocktail of woke inclusivity .However this overly concious political wokery becomes nothing more than a huge distraction from a pretty awful production. The self conscious casting , producing in the end , little more than a grey porridge of mostly bland , angry actors playing bland , angry characters .The humour was sparse and mostly lost.There was no connection between the actors, no magic , no nothing to be honest .Anyone new to the story would be challenged to make sense of it .In short , don't go .

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