Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is the adaptation & translation dir. Habib Tanvir, *Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna*. Tanvir's casting+use of dialects drew attention to class divisions & rural/urban divides in MND. Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is dir. Sean Holmes at Shakespeare's Globe. The cast shared the role of Robin/Puck. At some points, multiple actors played the role simultaneously! Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #midsummernightsdream is close to my ❤️. It was an NYU London & RADA production dir. Vivian Munn. Enjoyed the queer love triangle of Snout/Wall, Bottom/ Pyramus, Flute/Thisbe Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is dir. Katherine Steele Brokaw & Paul Prescott at Yosemite National Park. Poor Puck's wings were getting caught in rubbish the humans were leaving behind in the park! Preorder MND here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

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Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Northern Broadsides production dir Barrie Rutter. The Workmen are so busy, their casting takes place in a tea-break. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is the @the-rsc.bsky.social dir Erica Whyman. Billed 'A Play for the Nation', a professional cast toured around the UK & collaborated with different amateur theatre companies. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Michael Hoffman’s film. Flute delivers a heartfelt lament as Thisbe and stuns the audience into silence: 'very tragical mirth’ Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is San Simske Noci /Midwinter Night’s Dream by Goran Paskaljevic. It's set in Serbia & foregrounds the compromised world that the younger generation has inherited. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

NEW BOOK SERIES with @dgb-history.bsky.social: "Connected Worlds in Early Modernity" with series editors Christina H. Lee and Julia Schleck. Send proposals to the fabulous @erikagaffney.bsky.social All info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Today’s featured production from my #Introduction 4 #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is *Midsummer Mechanicals* (dir Kerry Frampton+Lucy Cuthbertson). So joyous - it created a sense of community in the theatre. My interview with Frampton: www.buzzsprout.com/891835/episo... Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

not unrelated to my last post, I am very excited (especially now I've written my paper - a record-breaking WEEK before I am due to give it) for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750' next week, in Oxford 18-19 June - free to attend! #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/conference-p...

Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is dir. by Nicholas Hytner @bridgetheatre.bsky.social Hippolyta was a war captive in a glass cage & audience knew she was being coerced into marrying Theseus. Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Today’s featured production from my Introduction for OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is *Flourish* by @1623theatre.bsky.social. It enlists imaginative help of children in restoring environmental damage caused by Titania &Oberon's quarrel Info: www.1623theatre.co.uk/flourish Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Deeply enticing CFP: Feminanimals: women as/and animals - April 2027 in Oxford, with the fabulous Fanny Clemente and Greta Colombani organising and Kaori Nagai and Chloe Taylor as keynotes - www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2027/...

Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is an Indian film *10 ml Love* (dir Sharat Katariya). The workmen rehearse *Ramlila* - a folk drama that is performed around Diwali - in the midst of a big fat Indian wedding. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Day 8 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Peter Brook's production for @the-rsc.bsky.social I love Sally Jacobs' set that emphasizes the worlds-within-worlds of the play Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu Set Model: V&A

Day 7 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is the one Russell T. Davies adapted. This film imagined a euphoric ending in which Hippolyta, released from her chains, kisses Titania. Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

hello friends. did you know you can get my book Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays on Kindle for free? & that despite being an academic book my introduction is mainly memoir about my academic journey, after the first section? I'd love some reviews on it: www.amazon.com/Pregnancy-Sh...

Day 6 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production/adaptation from my #Introduction 4 #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is *Revenge of the Amazons* by Jean Betts. It centres Hippolyta & the play-within-the-play is ‘Labia’s Lament’ by The Fallopian Thespians Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

🎨📚 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Art & Religion | London, UK The National Gallery, London is recruiting two Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellows in Art and Religion for a 22-month full-time postdoctoral fellowship based in its newly established Research Department. (1/7)

Day 5 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Sedos' (dir. Matt Hudson) in which Titania's instruction - 'Tie up my lover’s tongue. Bring him silently' - was underscored by ‘S&M’ by Rihanna. Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Day 4 of #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production 4rm my #Introduction 4 #OWC #MND is the @dasharts.bsky.social 1 dir. #TimSupple Indian & Sri Lankan actors performed in English &six SouthAsian languages with astute wordplay! Prod lmage: @the-rsc.bsky.social Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Day 3 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MND is a web series by TheCandleWasters from New Zealand. The 'Mechanicals' are reimagined as Gen Z & they are fiery! Webseries here: youtu.be/hacdY1hJdHk?... Preorder the MND edition: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Day 2 #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MND is Adrian Noble dir. stage&film version where Titania’s bower is an upturned umbrella, a nod to the play’s wet &rainy weather. Image from SBT @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

Day 1 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Julie Taymor dir. at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in NY. It began with Puck going to bed, implying that the entire play is perhaps Puck's dream. Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

It’s #Midsummer month& *AMidsummerNight’sDream* is on preorder tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu. Intro by me+text ed. Terri Bourus. Emma Smith gave me this #Dream project. Celebrating by sharing productions I cite until Midsummer Night #MidsummerCountdown. Today’s joy: giant flowers on the cover by Sarah Young.