A Midsummer Night's Dream palace and the forest, and the fairies were portrayed as gossamer-winged ballerinas. The overture by Felix Mendelssohn was always used throughout this period. Augustin Daly's production opened in 1895 in London and ran for 21 performances. Herbert Beerbohm Tree staged a 1911 production which featured "mechanical birds twittering in beech trees, a simulated stream, fairies wearing battery-operated lighting, and live rabbits following trails of food across the stage." Max Reinhardt staged "A Midsummer Night's Dream" thirteen times between 1905 and 1934, introducing a revolving set. After he fled Germany he devised a more spectacular outdoor version at the Hollywood Bowl
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream () is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Trnka, working under the Czech communist regime who had previously been denied in his wish to adapt "Don Quixote", worked for several years on his adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The film established a new pinnacle of craftmanship: Cerise Howard, discussing the film in a retrospective on Trnka for "Senses of Cinema", describes the puppet animation as "more liquid, more balletic than ever"; the scenes between