From A Midsummer Night’s Dream to When Harry Met Sally, Guardian critics suggest comforting culture for the changing seasons
What better way of seeing out the high season than a staging of Shakespeare’s bacchanalia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Raging with the sudden fevers, loves and infatuations associated with sun stroke, it is set amid lush Athenian forest splendour which, in a good production, leaves you smelling the fauna and flora. A Covid-secure prescription for this year’s “childing autumn” – as Titania calls it – is to watch an outdoor performance. There is the added bonus of watching Puck turn Bottom’s head into a donkey’s, which gets us in the mood for the panto season to come. Arifa Akbar
