It's a nothing of a line " "Hail mortal" " spoken by nobody important, but in Michael Grandage's A Midsummer Night's Dream it becomes the basis for an entire concept. A trivial bit of linguistic sleight of hand turns it into "Inhale mortal" and there you have it, a fairy troupe high on waccy baccy and the most sexually and socially anarchic of Shakespeare's comedies transformed into the toothless fantasy of a bunch o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:04PM on September 17, 2013