A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare's Globe) London Reviews and Tickets

But in 2021, [Midsummer Night's Dreams'] cheery maximalism is a blessed relief from the endless diet of minimalism, misery and compromise we’ve been subject to over the last year.
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This is pantomime Shakespeare, to entertain rather than provoke, and none the worse for that, though it does deliberately sacrifice much of the poetry, complexity and indeed the magic that have made this play endure.
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This time around, unfortunately, Sean Holmes’s production feels as if it has turned the corner from exuberant to effortful.
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It ramps up the comedy over the emotional notes at times, but its insistence on showing the audience a good time feels like precisely the right approach at the moment – exactly what people need.
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After the year we’ve had, we’re all ready for a party – and this production of Shakespeare’s lovestruck comedy, directed by Sean Holmes and first seen in 2019, riotously delivers a fiesta to remember.
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It's lovely to look at, but Sean Holmes's psychedelic production uses spectacle to mask the lack of direction.
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A production that revels in the joyously absurd while hinting at the play's darker edges.
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Sean Holmes’s boisterous production, first staged in 2019, does not make much of the nightmare aspects of Shakespeare’s dream. In carnival spirit, everything is on the go.
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