A MIDSUMMERNIGHT’S DREAM
by Shakespeare
Royal Theatre, Copenhagen 2003

Leaving the royal court of the royal theatre,
the performance explored the performative aspects
of letting go of privileges as a
condition of autonomous subjectivity.

Following the subjects in Shakespeare’s play
as they get lost in the forest, the performance
gradually made a diasporic escape into the bars,
hotels and hot dog stands of the urban landscape.

As the characters in Shakespeare’s play sneak
out in the woods to explore their identities
beyond the frameworks of power, the actors
left the audience at the Royal Theatre,
who now followed their adventures as a
live produced video performance.

Selected to the German triennial festival Theater der Welt 2005. (The theatre however chose to not send it.)