Midsummer Night's Dream International

This was completely enjoyable.

From Time Out Chicago:

"After touring the world, this subcontinental take on the Bard’s nicest comedy came to town just as the Mumbai terrorist attacks were erupting. The crystal-ball acuity is one thing, the quality of the productions another, but between the two, Chicago may be on its most relevant theatrical run in some time. This joyous reinterpretation adds a long feather to that cap.

Director Supple’s London-born show slaps polyglot readings of the venerable source into imaginative physical theater. Circus arts tend to undermine their settings, but the cavorting of spirits and fairies in ol’ Bill’s daisy-chain plot is as excellent a match as imaginable for the aerialist stunts on display.

This multitongued, symbol-heavy adaptation is sometimes an ingenious escape from archaic gibberish, but it’s just as often a stumbling block: Following Elizabethan English is hard enough without heavy accents and arbitrary foreign-language insertions. Yet the ritualistic heart of the proceedings, as profound a meeting of Eastern and Western magickal traditions as anything Aleister Crowley ever dreamt of, burns through these barriers, and the athletic cast of Indians and Sri Lankans perform with a skill and immediacy that transcends linguistic (and cultural) boundaries."