A Midsummer Night's Mash-up: Adapting Shakespeare as a Canada Day Dance Party

Abstract

On 1 July 2000, Toronto's Opera House became the unlikely set for a passing strange adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Serenity Industries, a Toronto dance party promotion company, hired the Queen Street East Theatre turned concert hall to host A Midsummer Night's Dream - a Canada Day rave .