... seemed especially small to our audience because the play ran at only about 80 minutes. By the second weekend, Dream had received a great deal of word-of-mouth publicity among members of my age cohort for being completely different from the stale, boring, and irrelevant stereotype ... the presumable reaction from Shakespeare's audience to the original text, which was risque in its time, through radically altering it to meet with the expectations of contemporary young adults, for whom the plot as written comes across as extremely tame. Finally, the environment of the nightclub in itself c...

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