As is the production, which is reasonably entertaining, reasonably workmanlike, but not … quite … magical, in the way that AMND should be.
For the record, the daughter unit enjoyed it — or at least was interested enough to ask me to download the script to her Kindle so she could actually read the dialog.
A ★★★½ review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1981)
There are a lot of MND editions out there, and I thought this one was the one featuring Helen Mirren as Hermia (1968), rather than the the one featuring Helen MIrren as Titania. Even though I thus missed seeing an incredible cast (including a near-nude Judi Dench as Titania), I’m not unhappy with this production. The play is played fairly straight — decent setwork, Elizabethan garb, Elizabethan music. The acting is decent enough, if early on a b…
Okay, I figured out part of my confusion — Amazon's got the 1968 (DVD) and 1981 (Instant Video) versions cross-linked, so that the reviews are conflated. Bah.