Casey Wilder Mott and Fran Kranz on their LA "Midsummer"

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4.7 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Director Casey Wilder Mott’s 2017 film adaptation of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" sets Shakespeare’s story in modern Los Angeles, where aspiring filmmakers, eccentric artists, studio execs, and surfers bounce off one another in a riot of color and music. We talk to Mott and Fran Kranz, who co-produced the film and plays Bottom, about why LA is a perfect fit for their movie, other recent film adaptations of Shakespeare, and a notable ass. Mott and Kranz are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published June 11, 2019. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, “A Very Good Piece of Work, I Assure You,” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. We had technical help from Andrew Feliciano and Evan Marquart at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California.

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0:00.0	At first, you think this is all just a gag.
0:03.7	Uh, 2B?
0:06.7	Not 2B.
0:08.2	Ah.
0:09.3	It's next door.
0:10.6	But pretty quickly, you realize it's not a gag at all.
0:15.1	You know that we are awake?
0:18.0	Rainy rocks.
0:40.3	And still in the rocks. From the Fulger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folgers director.
0:42.3	Casey Wilder-Mod has tried something pretty ambitious.
0:46.3	He's been in Hollywood for a few years working in film acquisitions and at a talent agency.
0:52.3	But like everyone else, he always wanted to direct. When he
0:56.8	finally pulled together all the elements, he decided that for his directorial debut, he would do
1:03.1	Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, set in contemporary Los Angeles.
1:09.1	Sarah Mish, you began, when you have spoken your speech,
1:13.6	enter into that break,
1:15.6	and so everyone according to their cue.
1:21.6	And focus.
1:23.6	Can you step back a little?
1:25.6	It has the lover's confusion and the fairies.
1:29.3	It has the rude mechanicals.
1:31.3	But it also has Lysander as a fashion photographer,
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