A Midsummer Night’s Dream at BUDAPEST OPERETTA AND MUSICAL THEATRE

The first world musical at the Budapest Operetta Theatre. Szakcsi, MP Sziámi and KERO®'s A Midsummer Night's Dream is about the encounter of the spirit world, humans, horizontal and vertical worlds - an encounter we are all keen on, based on Shakespeare's classic naturally.

The idea for the musical adaptation of one of the world's best known plays was born at the Budapest Operetta Theatre. The director Gábor Miklós Kerényi wrote the book with the lyrics writer Péter Müller Sziámi to be joined by one of the most outstanding artists of Hungarian jazz, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos. The Kossuth and Liszt Award winning pianist is at home in jazz, classical music and world music - which was the basis for him to create this genre-setting piece with his co-authors.

The Szeged Open Air Festival is co-producer of the world premiere, which creates a new genre, world musical. The original work is a piece of world theatre, so it was only logical for Béla Szakcsi Lakatos to include music of all nations from all around the world. A Midsummer Night's Dream mixes jazz and classical music, as well as music from Spain, Turkey, Romania, India and gypsy music - with very contemporary texts indeed.

In the center of the piece are the well-known characters.The play is set in the forest of dreams and love and on the opening with humans and invisible spirits destined to meet here. This is where they are all preparing for the big wedding of Theseus, the wealthy supplier, the Great Barrow, who picked this place for his daughter and the Police Chief's only son, Demetrius to get married on midsummer night. This is where the invisible fairies and their great king Oberon and his quarrelling wife Titania come with their servant Puck and his pals...

There in the shadow of the crying-music playing moon is here and so are the butterflies raising their wings, the flaming fires, the fiery flowers, the flying sticks and wedding pans and ass heads, the threads are mixed, the real lovers elope and Puck drops magical potion to the eyes of fairies and humans, and only he can entangle the chaos again … Beyond the lovers' mixup and the fights for power in KERO®'s production the cataclysms of our planet's going under also flares up. Nevertheless, by the end of the show Titania and Oberon, king and queen of the spirits face an interesting choice of how to go on with their lives…