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$15 General Admission, $12 Member, $7 child age 14 or younger

Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening

The play presents love in all its glory, warts and all: Love at first sight, innocent love, love twisted by the mind, by drugs, by lust, by jealousy, by a marriage on the rocks and even violence. Once a year, there is a day of midsummer madness, that Shakespeare was riffing off of, when all our worlds are topsy-turvy, and what happens in the realm of shadow and dream, alters and distorts the everyday world, which seems so ordinary. This is a special film version of Julie Taymor’s production staged at BAM.

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Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. She is best known for directing the stage musical, THE LION KING, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.

“In the end, there is no mistaking that the star of this production is Taymor herself. And there’s a magnificent muchness of her approach to the Bard’s most durable of comedies, as she tosses in everything from pillow fights to a grass-upholstered reclining chair to achieve her vision. But remarkably, this Midsummer never tips over into a too-muchness — there is a veneer of restraint at work here, as if she remains heedful of the admonition of the Demetrius-pining Helena: ”Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”–Thom Geir, Entertainment Weekly

“Julie Taymor’s off-the-stage filmed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a phantasmagoric visual fluidity that emphasizes the play’s uncanny unsettling nature more than its carnival silliness.”–Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail