The Tokyo International Players, who are in their 114th year, are starting off with the odd pairing of William Shakespeare and H.P. Lovecraft with their adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream! According to director Jonah Hagans, "[Midsummer] evokes images of lovers' folly and bumbling actors running amok in a forest peopled with diaphanous fairies. Not this time. Set in and around the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, in the late 1920s, our cast run to the forest only to find it throbbing with dark magic and haunted by creatures from their darkest nightmares. Drawing on the works of Lovecraft, the production design grabs characters from several novels, filling out the entourages of both Oberon and Titania. And Puck has an agenda all his own." Surprisingly, this isn't the first time Shakespeare and Lovecraft have been paired (see: The Transition of Juliet and Romeo)...
The Tokyo International Players will perform the play this coming weekend at the Sun Mall Theatre in Shinjuku, Japan...
About the play: Follow the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors as they interact with dukes, queens, and fairies of the forest. Based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, this dark interpretation of the classic Shakespeare play is sure to be unlike any production you have ever seen...
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(Thanks to tokyoplayers.org and japantoday.com)
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