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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
May 09, 1975
· Yale Repertory Theatre
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Alvin Epstein, the director of the Yale production, has a dark vision of the play. He sees not airy, but eerie fairies. The forest is like a lunar landscape – and the moon itself is a large silvery globe in the sky. […] The production falters a bit with its star-crossed lovers. Except for Meryl Streep (who clearly is one of the most versatile members of the Yale company) as Helena, they are not quite sportive enough.
I think everyone has a turbulent time there in those days it was purely a theater lab, the pressures of doing television and film were not yet present. Now, people don’t know what rep is. Then, we alternated parts from night to night. The rep was fun for me When. I was first in the movies, I think I was shooting “Manhattan” and “Kramer vs. Kramer” at the same time that I was performing “The Taming of the Shrew” at night in Central Park And the producer of one of the films said “It’s impossible to do all this at once. How will you keep focus?” And he meant on his project. It wasn’t so hard. I had spent a lot of time as a waitress and you always have to have a lot of things on your mind at once. (Meryl Streep, The New York Times, November 12, 2000)
