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...The transmasculine actors Sam Crerar and Vinnie Heaven, as an ardent Lysander and anxious Demetrius, together with non-binary actor Isobel Thom as Helena, bring layers of gender complexity to the lovers,...
...And as I think, you know, folks know, a generation of young people in the US have been locked out of the housing market, partially because we have a system and it’s both this 30-year fixed rate mortgage...
...Young American trumpeter Alonzo Demetrius stands in a modernist tradition that stretches from be-bop pioneers to the likes of Theo Croker and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah today....
...Over one entire wall of the Taxila museum are gold coins, minted during the reigns of rulers with names such as Pantaleon, King of North India, Demetrius “Dharmamita” and Menander of Kabul....
...Demetrius (Oliver Alvin-Wilson) treats Helena (Anna Madeley) so roughly that when he finally declares that he wants her back, she stares at him in shock....
...That light, reflecting off the foot-polished stone floor, illuminated a pair of youthful Byzantine soldiers: a young, swaggering St George astride his white charger, all glittering armour and levelled spear...
...That she is young, has exquisite feet, an ideal physique, is musically alert and technically assured, we might (perhaps, perhaps!) take for granted in a debutante Mariinsky soloist....
...It still looks fresh – partly because it scales up well in a bigger theatre, and partly because its benign veneer suits a young cast....
...Mlamli Lalapantsi is poignant as a Demetrius spurned by Lysander (Ronald Melato), and delightfully comic in energetic pursuit of Helena, played by Melissa Gerber....
...While the cast in The Changeling at the Young Vic smear one another with jelly, the actors in A Midsummer Night’s Dream let rip in a full-throttle bun fight, hurling sausage rolls and flinging bags of flour...
...It is a complex play for teenagers, but they shriek as Lysander, Hermia, Helena and Demetrius – dressed in school uniform and wielding mobile phones – slap, scratch and wrestle through their tangled loves...
...The cast is young and fresh. Bejun Mehta and Iride Martinez make a vivid King and Queen of the Fairies, while Kate Royal’s chaste Helena and Jared Holt’s virile Demetrius lead the lovers’ quartet....
...The same is true of a dazzlingly handsome St Demetrius with a mail coat, a bow slung over his shoulder and a single rather dandyish earring glinting from his right lobe....
...elegant soprano as Helena, the nutty brown baritone of Robert Davies’s Demetrius and Nicholas Lester’s aristocratic bass as Theseus....
...But drugs aren’t always a good idea, as we remind our young: Hermia and Helena end up in a catfight and Demetrius, still under the influence, decides to marry Helena....
...They revel in the drama of their thwarted love, while Edward Bennett’s wonderfully smug and haughty Demetrius smarts furiously at being rejected....
...In the central scene in which the young lovers find their affections spun every which way, the Globe’s actors go for high-speed frenzy, and do it well....
...All four lovers are in fine voice, with Miriam Gordon-Stewart’s crystal- clear Helena and Nmon Ford’s warmly confident Demetrius giving especial pleasure....
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