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Jun 22, 2015 · Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Directed by Julie Taymor. With Kathryn Hunter, David Harewood, Tina Benko, Max Casella. Filmed version of Julie Taymor's live theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy about young lovers and magical sprites.
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Jan 7, 2014 · Julie Taymor directs Shakespeare's comedy with a single white sheet and a cast of 20 actors in a black box theater. The production is a feast of imagination, acrobatics, and puppetry, spanning multiple worlds and perspectives.
Oct 17, 2013 · Julie Taymor and Andrew Sotomayor work on the makeup of David Harewood, who plays Oberon in Ms. Taymor’s staging of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Theater for a New Audience in Brooklyn.
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- § One Response to Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’S Dream: A Review of The Film
Because MND is so much about the theatre itself, it is not a surprise that Taymor has eschewed the location shoots she adopted for her previous Shakespeare films – Titus and The Tempest. This film records her production inside the theatre where it was performed live, capturing the visual splendor and relentless inventiveness for which she is known,...
Both the production and the film are completely built around the performance of the remarkable Kathryn Hunter as Puck. She opens the film as an exhausted sleeper drifting off into dreams, and when the rude mechanicals (as modern dress Brooklyn construction workers) show up and cut her bed free she literally drifts into the grid above the stage like...
The production is especially interesting in the realm of the supernatural, where Taymor’s visual genius prevails, while the “real” world is more mundane. Unfortunately that is not just because the visual presentation is more restrained. It seems the interpretive act was just less interesting to Taymor. The lovers were trivialized, with only Mandi M...
» Taymor’s film of MIDSUMMER announces additional showings in NYC, and around the US Shakespeare's Tribe says: July 26, 2015 at 8:59 am […] I reviewed this film earlier. My review is available here...
Sep 15, 2014 · Interview: Julie Taymor on A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and Theatre on Film. By: Alan Henry Sep. 15, 2014. Julie Taymor is no stranger to being innovative in the theater. In 1997 she became the...
Jun 23, 2015 · Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened yesterday in select cinemas. Click here for tickets and more info. Related:
Julie Taymor's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.