Nicholas Hytner makes the familiar gloriously strange in this slippery, sumptuous show Nicholas Hytner's A Midsummer Night's Dream, filmed for NT Live at the Bridge Theatre last summer, is " as it gleefully acknowledges " completely bonkers. But it doesn't start out that way. A troop of actors trudge through the audience, singing dirge-like psalms in dark suits and The Handmaid's Tale-esque headwra…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18AM on June 26, 2020