A Midsummer Nights Play

Leths television production of Sanct HansaftenSpil by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenshläger is an attempt to take the poetic play at face value and bring it to life in a series of tableaux with settings by Per Kirkeby and acted by a large number of celebrated actors and actresses In other words just as in the theatre the attempt means making the words burst out of the narrow framework of the stage or tableau