The project has already started and already we are full steam ahead! After an impromptu meeting with the Director myself and Oliver have and initial setting and time to start working from and a lot of research to do. Kenneth has a lot of idea's of things that he wants to include that is going to make this a full and fascinating project to work on.
THE INITIAL PLAN
The setting: Athens, 1970 at the time of the Colonels coup.
The concept: Psychedelia and drug culture.
Theseus is a Colonel in the Greek military, one of the colonels in the coup (this is artistic licence as in the script he is a Duke). The opposing lovers Demetrius and Lysander, both vying over Hermia, are from the opposing greek political factions who were involved in a conflict at the time - the rigid Right wing against the more hippyish Left wing.
The fairies are going to have influences of India, as there are so many mentions in the text of time they spent there and this needs to be incorporated in the costumes.
There are also going to be three dances incorporated at various points in the production, a tango (or other passionate dominant dance) an Indian dance and the potential for a clog dance that one of Oliver's characters, Nick Bottom, may do. These types of dance are not something that immediately spring to mind when thinking of adaptations of the production, but as it stands as they are explained the dances do make sense in terms of the characters.
Research research research!
1. what kind of conflict was happening politically
2. what the drug and hippy culture was like in Greece in the 1970's
3. the dances
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