By Maddie Crum for The Huffington Post, 21 October 2015
A goth-looking, tall-haired fairy in a blood-red dress might not be how you visualized “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” when you read it in high school.
In its original form, Shakespeare’s play about the sway of magic over a pair of lovers and the stormy spell-casters who control them takes place in, well, midsummer — not an eerie October woodland. But a 2007 production of the play staged in Singapore took liberties with the look.
That’s the beauty of Shakespeare: his works are continually re-staged and remixed, in attempts to revamp them without losing their original intent. A new book, Presenting Shakespeare, provides a sample of the myriad ways the Bard’s plays have been reimagined around the world, with posters advertising productions in the U.K., the U.S., Japan, Russia and beyond.
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