Concrete Playground

Sometimes, when you're a kid, Shakespeare ain't that much fun. It's bad enough that you may not understand what they're saying without having to worry about all the tragedy you have to witness. Then there are the seats you have to sit on and the rules of silence out have to obey. Dang, there are so many rules in Shakespeare when you're a kid!

But what if you're in a park — Centennial Park? Hmm, this already seems to have improved my 8 year-old self's impression of the event. Then, while you're busy roaming around there while mum and dad and all the other couples in skinny jeans are eating fancy home made picnic hampers on sweet picnic rugs, these mysterious and mischievous characters like Puck and Bottom emerge. The whole way through the play they make you giggle until at the very end a couple of lovers kiss and make up (eww!). That actually sounds like something you could easily drag my 8 year-old self to and, in fact, you could also drag my 25 year-old self to. I guess it's lucky then that Wild Rumpus Productions is staging a Spring season of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Centennial Park — it's Shakespeare without all the rules.

A Midsummer Nights Dream will be performed every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30pm