Maybe you think the challenge in directing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is to surpass Peter Brook's groundbreaking production of the early 1970s. Think again. Karimi-Hakak's struggle against the venality and stupidity of the authorities in Tehran who blocked his 1999 production of Dream is what he himself dubs “a midwinter nightmare.”

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