{"id":37812,"date":"2013-06-14T21:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T03:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/film-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-1981.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:56:38","slug":"film-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/film-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-1981.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"
So this was not the edition of the play I was looking for — I was looking for the 1968 version with Judi Dench as Titania and Helen Mirren as Hermia. Instead, I got the 1981 version with Helen Mirren as Titania … which wasn't bad, but a scosh disappointing.<\/p>\n

As is the production, which is reasonably entertaining, reasonably workmanlike, but not … quite … magical, in the way that AMND should be.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1981)<\/a>
\n 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…\n <\/p>\n

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So this was not the edition of the play I was looking for — I was looking for the 1968 version with Judi Dench as Titania and Helen Mirren as Hermia. Instead, I got the 1981 version with Helen Mirren as Titania … which wasn't bad, but a scosh disappointing. 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