Oskaras Korsunovas' version of Shakespeare's lyrical romantic comedy is unlike any production you are ever likely to have seen.
Shakespeare may have penned some of his prettiest lines ever in this most visual of plays but this clear-thinking Lithuanian director does not translate them into pretty pictures. At least, not on stage.
Instead, he encourages his audience to formulate their own images, even providing them with the projection screens on which to view them.
There are no gauzy costumes, no fairy wings, not even an elaborate ass's head.
The cast wear playclothes - baggy denim and quaintly patterned cotton dungarees - and rely entirely on their own personal armoury of props - their voices, expressive faces, humour, agile bodies and a never-still collective inner eye.
Then there are the boards. Boards? Scarcely is there a moment when any one of the performers is without a human-sized wooden board.
We are confronted by their initially unsettling, blank presence long before their owners fully emerge.
Then, through clever lighting and movement, they take on a life and personality of their own, providing the setting - the court, forest, the walls and pillars of Athens, the connecting walkway between the two worlds - and, more importantly, the bridge between the play and the imagination.
Joyful and mischievous, this is a beautiful, timeless play with universal themes and a plethora of original ideas and interpretations.
Starts 7.30pm, tickets £16.50-£10. Call 01273 709709.
There will be a free talk after the show on May 15.
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