The
Donkey Show is named after a kind of
pornography involving a woman and a donkey (
I won't go in to it). Despite its
bestial name, the show is actually a rendition of
Shakespeare’s
Midsummer Nights Dream or, as the company prefers to call it, "A Midsummer’s Night
Disco." You see, the whole play is set in the
1970s the theatre is a
disco club ( you need to be
21 or older to get in), the play is an
immersive experience with entrances and exits from all directions. Immersive theatre is hard to pull off well— The Donkey Show is one of the few productions ever to win universal support from
critics for the technique.
The play opened in New York City in1999, It is now playing in London too. It was directed by Diane Paulus & Randy Weiner.