A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an excellent, humorous play written by Shakespeare. It is highly characteristic of Shakespeare, bringing several subplots into one masterful story. I have seen this play presented in a classical format and I found it thoroughly entertaining. Directed by Robin McKee, UNL’s March 27th performance of Shakespeare’s comedy was most definitely entertaining, but not because it was well done. I found the drama laughable, though the comedy did …showed first 75 words of 554 total…

…showed last 75 words of 554 total…play. I had several problems with this presentation. I think that I could have excused the strange setting of this classical piece, the poor acting, or the inconsistency of the theme, but I found the combination of all three inexcusable. With the exception of the set, I feel that the elements of quality production were missing. I would not recommend this play to anyone unless I knew they would be drugged up and bored anyway.