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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

SNOW falls throughout most of director Matthew Lenton's refreshing new look at Shakespeare's darkest of rom-coms.

While this takes literally the bard's own scripted notions of how the seasons are out of whack, the production opens with a sorry-looking Bottom tending to a terminally ill wife, his only distraction a TV talent show that might just help him and his fellow wannabes live the dream. Given his wife's blessing to chase his muse following a mercy call from Peter Quince, Bottom does exactly that, led on his way by a gaggle of blonde-wigged fairies who resemble peroxided Harpo Marxes.

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