Review Excerpts
“‘‘MIDSUMMER’ DREAM OF A PLAY’…The play is a confusing one to read. But you would never know that from this energetic production that clears things up and convinces one against that Shakespeare was meant for the theater boards not the blackboards. This is living theater, not at its most avant-grade or theoretical but simply at its best.”
—Jacob Stockinger, MADISON CAPITAL TIMES (9/8/1981)
“‘SHAKESPEARE’S MEMORABLE ‘DREAM’’…A last word for Randall Duk Kim, artistic director of the American Players Theater, as Puck. He is lithe and quick, impressively consumed and clarity personified in his utterance of some of Shakespeare’s most memorable lines (‘What fools these mortals be.’). If his voice is not quite right, at least for my taste—a bit too throaty, too heavy, too old, at times too raucous—he overcomes this defect with fine stage presence….”
—John T. Aehl, THE STATE JOURNAL (9/8/1981)
“‘AMERICAN PLAYERS LEND MORE MAGIC TO ‘DREAM’’…Kim played Puck with an animalistic mischievousness which never failed to evoke a positive response from the audience.”
—Jeanna Olson, THE DAILY CARDINAL (10/1/1981)
