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A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC, Barbican review - visually ravishing with an undercurrent of violence by Rachel Halliburton

This psychedelic mashup conveys a sci-fi-style alternate reality Hermia is a headbutting punk with a tartan fetish, Oberon looks like Adam Ant and Lysander appears to have stumbled out of a Madness video. Yet Eleanor Rhode's exuberant A Midsummer Night's Dream " which has transferred from a triumphant run at Stratford-Upon-Avon " is no straightforward Eighties tribute, but a psychedelic mashup that's as ravishing as …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18AM on December 11, 2024

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