Never mind that Titania's fairy posse is full of 8-year-olds. Or that Bottom ends up in a baby carriage. The odd thing about this Central Park staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream is that the foolish mortals — not the knavish sprites — truly cast a spell: the quartet of quarreling Athenians (Martha Plimpton, at her scornful lover's feet, pleads, ''Use me but as your spaniel!''); the ham-handed players who do a hysterical Romeo and Juliet spoof (Jay O. Sanders' Bottom is tops); the Duke who fancies himself a theater critic. It's hardly a magical Midsummer, but it's surely a merry one. B
Details Opening Date: Aug 23, 2007; Lead Performances: Keith David and Jay O. Sanders; Writer: William Shakespeare; Director: Daniel Sullivan
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