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Oct 17, 2013 · After the Dark, the ‘Dream’. As the director Julie Taymor started imagining her new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” she made two choices early on: She wanted children to ...
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Jan 7, 2014 · 5 minute read. We’ve all seen Julie Taymor work her theater magic before. With a wave of her directorial wand, she creates fables in which larger-than-life animals walk and talk (The Lion King). Her heroes fly in multiple incarnations (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark). She even outdoes the sorcerer Sarastro in her enchanting The Magic Flute at ...
Jun 17, 2015 · Julie Taymor's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is so intricately crafted and creatively rich that one might assume she had been fantasizing about it for years. But the lauded stage director says she ...
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- § One Response to Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’S Dream: A Review of The Film
Because MND is so much about the theatre itself, it is not a surprise that Taymor has eschewed the location shoots she adopted for her previous Shakespeare films – Titus and The Tempest. This film records her production inside the theatre where it was performed live, capturing the visual splendor and relentless inventiveness for which she is known,...
Both the production and the film are completely built around the performance of the remarkable Kathryn Hunter as Puck. She opens the film as an exhausted sleeper drifting off into dreams, and when the rude mechanicals (as modern dress Brooklyn construction workers) show up and cut her bed free she literally drifts into the grid above the stage like...
The production is especially interesting in the realm of the supernatural, where Taymor’s visual genius prevails, while the “real” world is more mundane. Unfortunately that is not just because the visual presentation is more restrained. It seems the interpretive act was just less interesting to Taymor. The lovers were trivialized, with only Mandi M...
» Taymor’s film of MIDSUMMER announces additional showings in NYC, and around the US Shakespeare's Tribe says: July 26, 2015 at 8:59 am […] I reviewed this film earlier. My review is available here...
Sep 15, 2014 · Interview: Julie Taymor on A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and Theatre on Film. Julie Taymor is no stranger to being innovative in the theater. In 1997 she became the first woman to win the Tony Award ...
3 days ago · Peter Brook – A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970-71) I remember being at Oberlin College and taking a bus 15 hours with my fellow schoolmates to New York to see Peter Brook's Dream. It had a ...
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Jun 21, 2015 · Julie Taymor's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which premiered in 2013 at the Theater for a New Audience in Brooklyn, is released in cinemas today. Here, she tells us about her overriding vision for the play, and why filming it is true to Shakespeare's original intentions.
