Midsummer Nightmarish Dream

I always think that I am pretty open minded about most things like art and theater. I'm not going to say I was thrilled to be going to the Joffrey Ballet performance of Midsummer Nights Dream, but I didn't go in thinking it would be like a stereotypical nauseating, boring-as-watching-linoleum-curl ballet that you see on TV or in the movies. Oh, but it was. I'm sure everyone in the show put a ton of work into it and deserves tons of credit, but how long can people seriously stand to watch people run around on their toes like that? I guess I also have a hard time understanding why someone would take a Shakespeare play, which as far as I know are known for their clever scripts, and strip out all of the speaking. I guess I didn't really know what a ballet was. I thought it was a musical with extra dancing. No. They don't talk. They just float around. It struck me as silly.

Oh well.

So it goes.