Wed 26 December 2018 | 8:30 pm - 9:45 pm
Clipa Theater - Harakevet 38, Tel Aviv,
Clipa Theater is proud to launch:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Space
A shameless and intergalactic adaptation of Shakespeare’s escapist comedy classic
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Space highlights the side plot of the Mechanicals, a play-within-a-play, as Shakespeare’s hallucinogenic comedy was performed independently in the course of the English Civil War. Accompanied by stunts, it intended to offer instant gratification to an impatient audience without being dragged into the many complex plot twists and love affairs of the original play.
The Mechanicals’ plotline tells of a group of skilled workers but incompetent actors, who prepare to perform at the royal wedding of the Duke and Queen, but fall victim to fairies, magic and seduction.
The craftsmen, whose professions have lost their relevance or existence in today’s society, have been replaced by characters of popular entertainment culture. They are being sent on a mission to perform their play in space and connect with intelligent life forms.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Space embraces bad taste in all its artistic choices in order to experience and question the deceitfulness and vividness of theater, presenting a play-within-a-play to fool us to the fullest, in the way we believe Shakespeare intended to.
Accompanied by love dolls and sex toys as stage props, the adaptation brazenly examines the attraction between pop culture and the billion-dollar porn industry, creeps into the perversions and distortions that result from consumer culture, and raises the price that humankind is required to pay to eliminate the final frontier of imagination and fantasy. Can it be called evolution?
If the reality we live in is the most absurd dream, then A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Space is the most logical and reasonable possibility of escapism.
The show includes nudity and sexual content and is intended for an adult audience (age 18+).
All shows take place at 37 HaRav Kook Street, Kerem HaTeymanim, Tel Aviv
By: William Shakespeare
Direction: Ariel Bronz & Idit Herman
Adaptation and writing: Ariel Bronz
Set and costume design: Idit Herman
Participants: Oded Zadok, Or Lev Ari, Gal Volinez, Aram Rabinovitch,
Kazuyo Shionoiri, Ziv Barashi, Reut Rivka, Ariel Bronz
Music director: Hever Perlmutter
Music: Felix Mendelssohn, Hever Perlmutter, Ziv Barashi, Reut Rivka
Light design: Yanir Liberman
Movement and choreography: Artour Astman
Production: Marijn Alders Braz
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