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Peter
Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970
The Forest
Coiled
wires, suspended from poles from the gallery, caught the lovers like
brambles, tree branches, or the heart-eating serpent of Hermia’s
dream, circling and entangling the lovers as they raced through the
forest. They produced ‘metallic music’ as they twisted and
settled’, reported
Peter Thomson in Shakespeare Survey.
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The mechanicals in the forest. Fairies holding “forest” wires. |
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(1973) Titania raised on her bower surrounded by fairies on trapezes. Also shows doors open, upper gallery and “forest” wires. |
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(1994) Puck and Oberon. The forest is represented by light bulbs. Note the similarity in costuming to Brook’s production, especially colours. Photographer: Malcolm Davies |
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Stage Devises
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