{"id":18961,"date":"2024-05-24T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18961"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:07:15","slug":"daily_3380_-_a_different_midsommarnattsdrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/05\/24\/daily_3380_-_a_different_midsommarnattsdrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3380 &#8211; a different <i>Midsommarnattsdr\u00f6m<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3380_theatre.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nA Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream at Stadsteatern. This time the actual Shakespeare play, not a ballet, and this time the whole family went. Eric and I obviously knew roughly what we were in for; Ingrid enjoyed it; Adrian was mostly restless and not particularly spell-bound.<\/p>\n<p>I found it all pleasantly modern while still true to the spirit of the original. (No microphones!) And of course Shakespeare would have wanted battery-driven hobby horses for his actors, if he had had access to them.<\/p>\n<p>I will remember the wonderfully zany costumes. A bizarre mixture of fashion from Shakespeare&#8217;s era (ruff collars and puffy knee-length trousers) and Greek-themed decorations. Lysander and Demetrius wore sweatshirts, one a souvenir shirt from Athens and the other with University of Athens branding. Exaggerated face paintings reminded me of the masks used in Greek tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>There were no photos allowed during the performance of course, so the photos below are official press photos from Stadsteatern.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/En_midsommarnattsdro\u0308m_01_press.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/En_midsommarnattsdro\u0308m_02_press.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream at Stadsteatern. This time the actual Shakespeare play, not a ballet, and this time the whole family went. Eric and I obviously knew roughly what we were in for; Ingrid enjoyed it; Adrian was mostly restless and not particularly spell-bound. I found it all pleasantly modern while still true to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,768,797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18967,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions\/18967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}