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[vid] Stranger Companies (A Midsummer Night's Dream 2019)
source: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre and National Theatre 2019
audio: Perfume Genius, "Slip Away"
length: 2.50
download: 298MB on Mediafire
summary: Lo, the transforming power of love.
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Lyrics on AZ Lyrics
This production blew my mind. I was watching it without paying full attention, yeah, Athens is Gilead, Theseus is a jerk, uh-huh, and then I realized that Oberon was speaking Titania's lines. It's so wild to me how flipping a single element makes a play that's extremely familiar--I first read it for English class in seventh or eighth grade, and my high school performed it when I was a sophomore--into something new and rich and strange. And how the staging can create associations or possible connections between Theseus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titania without ever answering them conclusively. And how queerness, well, saves the world, or at least Athens--which is why I was particularly happy with my choice of a queer artist for the song.
audio: Perfume Genius, "Slip Away"
length: 2.50
download: 298MB on Mediafire
summary: Lo, the transforming power of love.
AO3 page | tumblr post | YouTube link
Lyrics on AZ Lyrics
This production blew my mind. I was watching it without paying full attention, yeah, Athens is Gilead, Theseus is a jerk, uh-huh, and then I realized that Oberon was speaking Titania's lines. It's so wild to me how flipping a single element makes a play that's extremely familiar--I first read it for English class in seventh or eighth grade, and my high school performed it when I was a sophomore--into something new and rich and strange. And how the staging can create associations or possible connections between Theseus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titania without ever answering them conclusively. And how queerness, well, saves the world, or at least Athens--which is why I was particularly happy with my choice of a queer artist for the song.