A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

One of Shakespeare’s best-known comedies is at the same time a bittersweet drama about the nature of love. Different couples lose their way in an enchanted forest; one love gives way to another, and amid the confusion love appears as nothing more than dependence, an antidote to loneliness. In the dark forest, young people searching for their partners seek themselves in one another and this search can lead to both happiness and unhappiness. In Noémi Kulcsár’s choreography, all the characters of A Midsummer Night’s Dream appear on stage: the lovers, Theseus and Hippolyta, the fairy king Oberon and the fairy queen Titania, as well as the craftsmen and, of course, the mischievous Puck. In the choreographer’s contemporary, modern interpretation, Shakespeare’s figures come to life in today’s dance-theatre language, while set to Felix Mendelssohn’s masterpiece of the same title they chase one another over hill and over dale, thorough dream and thorough nightmare alike.