ABSTRACT
The most widely traveled production of Shakespeare has been Peter Brook’s 1970 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which went on a world tour, played in dozens of countries, and was performed more than 80 times. This was, of course, Brook’s famous Shakespeare-in-a-white-box production, the largest and longest international tour ever attempted by a British theater company. This production served to export Shakespeare to the world, and it remains one of the most famous. Yet, other than a review from Zagreb by a British journalist (Beauman 1973), an acting edition of the script by Glen Looney (1974), and a few photographs, no further record exists of Brook’s production. There is no video or audio recording, and reviews are scant. Brook’s play broke with all performance traditions-no pageants, no castles, no woods, and no Elizabethan or Athenian costumes. Brook also deviated from the performance tradition by leaving the language of the play intact. Most innovative was the set, designed by Sally Jacobs, a plain white box with two doors and ladders along the walls leading to a catwalk above the stage.
