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ENTERTAINMENT

This Dream is tedious

Monica Bell as Titania,l, and Michael Early as Oberon.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Great Lakes Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Barry Daniels Gerald Freedman's staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theatre Festival is sadly lacking in passion, wit and poetic effect, the very qualities that distinguish this unique comedy. Although the verse was

clearly spoken, the acting was decidedly flat. There was no chemistry between Michael Early and Monica Bell, who double as Theseus and Hippolyta and Oberon and Titania; they were as "illmet by moonlight" as by sun and candlelight. The four young lovers were rather repellant characters, spoiled, petty, petulant and dull. Their comic business was often forced and painfully obvious. The only lively and amusing scenes involved the "rude mechanicals."

I especially enjoyed Bill Kux's harried Peter Quince, John Siedman's prissy Robin Starvling, and Buzz Bovshow's amiable, slow-witted Snug. Unfortunately the staging of the "play within the play," was labored and slow.

John Ezell's set and James Scott's costumes were stylish and effective for the opening and closing court scenes. We are in a tropical resort, pastelcolored rice paper and bamboo umbrellas shading the blistering sun, an array of paper lanterns lighting up the night. The forest, alas, seemed right out of Disney World. Its plastic ugliness was in conflict with the late nineteenth-century style of the fairy costumes.

Unlike the Ridiculous Theatrical production [see page 21] which used the play to explode sexual conventions, the Great Lakes Theatre Company production seems to lack a point of view or compelling reason for being. The result is a Dream that "tedious," but, alas, not "brief."

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