Review: Cal Shakes - Midsummer Night's Dream

The final play of this year's Cal Shakes season totally rocked. Mind you, it's hard (although not impossible) to miss with a Shakespeare comedy. Three things really stood out. The actress who played Titania/Hippolyta was TOTALLY HAWT. *ahem* They weren't afraid to write new, topical material that integrated seamlessly with the original (in particular, Puck's "Prologue against cell phones", which I'd love to have a copy of). And related to the previous, a reminder that there's a lot of room between the lines of the script to create very individual characters that can either enhance or subvert a more traditional understanding of the text.

(Unrelated note: And the DSL network, in its on-again off-again misbehavior is back "on", at least with coaxing. This is a problem because it's hard to get the underlying problem fixed unless it stays reliably broken.)