A Midsummer Night's Dream . Tucson Weekly . 05-24-99

A Midsummer Night's Dream

DIRECTED BY: Michael Hoffman

REVIEWED: 05-24-99

Local punk rock star Greg Petix told me that there's always one woman whom you cannot openly admire without pissing off every other woman in the country. Currently, that woman is Calista Flockhart, who I must say, turns in a fabulous performance in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She has a clear mastery of the language, and is the only actor in the production who emphasizes the iambic pentameter without sounding artificial. Kevin Kline is also outstanding, as are Stanley Tucci as Puck and Rupert Evert as Oberon. Unfortunately, Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania sounds like a non-native speaker attempting to phonetically sound-out the script; but there are enough strong performances here to make her insignificant. This is good stuff for Shakespeare lovers, but the difficult dialogue may be off-putting to those who prefer Shakespeare in Love to the real material.

--James DiGiovanna

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