... Generational Homogeneity The first production I ever directed was arguably my most successful. While "Dream" (my adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") was poorly staged, shabbily designed, and narratively messy, the production achieved something I have yet to achieve again. "Dream" brought in an audience of people in my age group, who rarely, if ... opposed to writing it off as an antiquated relic of yesteryear. All of the above textual choices made the sexual hi-jinks of Midsummer far more complicated, as the confused couplings in the narrative involved homosexual characters being...

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... composer himself. In fact it would seem that it was just Orff's unfortunate timing that had him branded as a Nazi. In 1938, Orff accepted a commission to compose the music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after the original score by Mendelssohn had been banned for being racist. Orff came under fire for this score and was even investigated by an American officer in charge of ... course closely related to the need to reconsider the future of German politics and culture as World War 1 proceeded. The questions of what form German culture would take after the war and what role art would play i...

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