A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theatre

Octagon, BoltonThey say that if you can remember the 1960s you weren't really there. ­Alternatively, you might have been in Greece, where the military junta that seized power in 1967 ruthlessly suppressed the counter-culture and regarded hippies as enemies of the state.David Thacker's production opens in a joyless Athens, where a group of sour-faced colonels have brutally overturned the cradle of democracy. Rob Edwards's Theseus is a decorated despot who does not propose to marry Hippolyta so...

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