Flux Theatre Ensemble's take on A Midsummer Night's Dream has just gotten a warm review in BackStage.   If you're one to be skeptical when frequently-performed Shakespeare plays are remounted, consider this excerpt from the review:

Before starting production, Flux presented a four-night reading series featuring 16 playwrights' takes on Midsummer's characters. Shakespeare's comedy is also the opening gambit in what the company calls a "season of transformation" consisting of plays "where life changes the body against the body's will." This puts an existential spin on a key element in Midsummer: the rambunctious Bottom's transformation to not only a donkey but also the love object of the fairy queen Titania. Director August Schulenburg further tells us that as the company worked on the play, it "streaked our eyes with love, and we are chasing it through the woods, but it will not stay for us."

Flux's approach is inkeeping with their mission statement, which emphasizes theatre's transformative potential.  Schulenburg makes his directing debut with the company; he was the writer of several of the company's first productions.  It's exciting to see such ambitious work at the Off-Off Broadway level; I'm looking forward to checking this one out.