Try it in Translation
Presented by OSF and Portland Center Stage. By William Shakespeare in a modern verse translation by Sean San José. Directed by Rosa Joshi. Produced in association with upstart crow collective and Play On Shakespeare. When civil unrest wracks Rome as the famine-ravaged underclass battle the ruling elite, a war hero steps into the spotlight to serve his nation—only to turn on it and seek its overthrow.
Boise, ID, USA. An exhilarating night of midsummer madness, this magical comedy brims with mistaken identity, mismatched lovers, and mischief-making fairies. Whitty's modern verse translation of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece ensnares two pairs of lovers and a rustic troupe of would-be actors in a forest full of comedic adventure. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a joyful celebration of love lost, transformed, and restored that casts a powerfully pleasing spell.