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Away with the fairies: 50 years on from Peter Brook’s iconic Dream

In 1970, director Peter Brook boldly reimagined Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, doing away with a conventional pastoral setting in favour of a brightly lit white box. Nick Smurthwaite finds out how Brook took the show from concept to stage and created one of the most seminal productions of the 20th century

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