"'Very Tragical Mirth': Performing A Midsummer Night's Dream on Screen(s) during Lockdown"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbp53/
Author:
	Broadribb, Benjamin.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Survey 76 (2023): 37–51.
Annotation:
	Considers online performances of Midsummer Night's Dream during the pandemic, including by CtrlAltRepeat, dir. Sid Phoenix; The Show Must Go Online (TSMGO), dir. Robert Myles (q.v.); Back Room Shakespeare Project (q.v.); and Robert Kerr's BBC television production (q.v.). Suggests that these performances of Midsummer Night's Dream "allowed audiences to escape from their experiences of the pandemic through fantastical frivolity."
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Kerr, A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Myles, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Persons:
	Phoenix, Sid; Myles, Robert; Kerr, David
Tags:
	A Midsummer Night's Dream, Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage Productions
WSB Update:
	Spring 2026
WSB Record Number:
	bbbp53