Latitude festival: Shakespeare, Swan Lake and Empire of the Sun steal the show | Nosheen Iqbal

The Suffolk festival's performing arts lineup was stronger than ever before – but my favourite theatrical moment came courtesy of a bandBritish summers are apparently incomplete without at least one production of A Midsummer's Night Dream. And so it proved at Latitude, where festivalgoers were turned away – twice – from packed performances of Dream by Filter and Lyric Hammersmith. Their adaptation was pitched as an irreverent greatest-bits riff on Shakespeare's play, in which Oberon flaile...

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