Gow has recreated scenes from the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night , in the opening scene of Away, and The Tempest, in the closing scene of Away. ... This is evident in Away from Act 1 Scene 1 where Tom plays 'Puck' in the Highschool play A Midsummer's Night Dream. ... Historical Literature in Shakespeare, a big part of our Western Culture, is recycled to provide meanings and symbolisms that the audience can readily understand. ...
Most plays have stage directions to guide the director and actors as well as readers. Comedies use repetition to make the audience laugh. Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound (1968) uses both stage directions and repetition in unusual and funny ways. In this play, different kinds of stage directi...
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 ever, had attended theatre, and exposed the joy of Shakespeare in performance to a demographic of audience members that, for the most part, had no previous interest in attending a Shakespearean performance. ... Each performance was sold out, with the majority of tickets being bought by members of my age group, and by closing night appr...
