What Fools These Critics Be!

I would like to add my voice to Connie Orliski’s, who wrote (Counterpunch, Sept. 4) in response to Jan Herman’s criticism of Shakespeare Orange County’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

As Orliski so ably articulated, the audiences of Shakespeare’s day would have loved the bawdy antics and even stopped the show with their laughter and applause.

When I attended the play, the audience was indeed caught up in the fun, and as Orliski states, it is most important that Shakespeare be taken out of the stuffy halls of academia and viewed as a lively and entertaining experience for all.

Lastly, I am concerned, as she is, that critical reviews like Herman’s will keep people away from this fledging troupe that has strived so hard to provide Orange County with a Shakespeare they can relate to, they can laugh and cry with and, most of all, whose poetry they can be moved by, all of which this production accomplished with great success.

EDITH HARVATH, Buena Park