'Midsummer [a play with songs]' Is Too Meta for Its Own Good
Theatricality as fluid as “Midsummer [a play with songs]” displays can help or hurt the material. David Greig’s two-hander (he also directed), with music by Gordon McIntyre, a 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit from that city’s Traverse Theatre, boasts a knockout uncredited sound design, richly detailed lighting by Claire Elliot, and a format that allows Matthew Pidgeon’s Bob and Cora Bi…