A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The Royal Shakespeare Company with Poulton Drama at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare’s Globe at Shakespeare’s Globe, and: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Pendley Shakespeare Festival at Pendley Manor

Trendy or topical? Sexual politics and panopticism in the 2016 BBC Midsummer Night’s Dream

“…Katherine Steele Brokaw observed that '[t]he broadcast's reception was split along ideological lines: while the conservative Daily Mail's headline proclaimed "outrage" over the "PC adaptation," many Britons celebrated Davies's liberal (in both senses of the word) updates'. 9 At the same time, even the most enthusiastic comments imply that Davies's 'decision to "gay up" the play' is something 'that theatrical Shakespeare productions have been doing for decades', 10 and thus it should not be considered an innovative approach. On the other hand, what I believe is the real topicality of the film, its comments on a modern surveillance culture eerily similar to our post-panoptic world, has remained mostly unremarked.…”