
Here is the review for Midsummer at the Avery Schreiber Theatre from Backstage.com: The Bard's most famous comedy disguises but still delivers Shakespeare's signature edge. How Billy-Boy loved to prick the pompous and rattle the religious. This production is set not in Athens but in present day Beverly Hills and Compton. But unlike many recent films, director Anthony Barnao's adaptation is thoroughly enjoyable. Barnao's hood is not the sinister murder capital, ruled by gun-toting OGs. This Compton is a green land, filled with creepy, crawly things--a place where reality and dreams are blurred, a land ruled at nightfall by the magical, and definitely mischievous, faeries, as personified by Puck, played with devilish charm by Marc Pelina.
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