My Midsummer Night Dream

Last Friday I found myself in a feel like Woodstock space. But I wasn’t close to near, I was in Nicosia visiting my sister at the set of Athina’s Kasiou modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s play Midsummer Night Dream. There I was, conquered by desires, confused and trapped between fantasy and reality.

The play took place in a 3 story house transformed into a castle and its surrounding endless gardens. You could see trees rooted inside the castle and beds and chandeliers hanging from garden trees. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, instead I was in Athina’s inception of a  Midsummer Night Dream.

The 28 year old director created and ably brought to life moving pictures inspired by Tim Walker illustrations. You could sense the blend between reality and imagination, facts and dreams, humans and animals, urban and rural, cities and nature, temper and passions, logic and insanity. This intervention unknown for the Cypriot even my Greek and may I dare say international standards revived what I had forgotten the most, the power of a midsummer night dream.

And when my journey came to an end my tears dried out, I sailed away to Chris Bathgate’s sounds .