There was much grumbling in advance of Russell T Davies’s TV adaptation,with predictions of political correctness gone crazy, but it was a spirited, or triumphant performance. Plus,Alan Partridge on the ‘schasm’ between rich and poorA impartial bit of splutter preceded the arrival of Russell T Davies’s TV adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC1), largely on social media and largely emanating from the sort of people who enjoy getting exasperated about things they havent seen. But they’d heard there was to be a lesbian kiss, and that Russell had cut some lines in which lovelorn female characters threatened suicide. It was deemed to be political correctness gone crazy,or something.
These criticisms were never going to withstand the actual broadcast, because Russell has produced something resolutely unobjectionable and spirited – a triumphant realisation of his stated ambition, and which was to produce a contemporary,family-friendly, BBC1-alert version of Shakespeare’s play.
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Source: theguardian.com