A Midsummer Night's Dream: Presented by the Stratford Festival of Canada at the Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario
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Abstract
A Midsummer Night's Dream Presented by Stratford Festival of Canada at Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario. May 4-October 31, 2004. Directed by Leon Rubin. Choreography by Donna Feore. Designed by John Pennoyer. Lighting by Michael J. Whitfield. Music composed by Bruce Gaston. Circus instruction by Anais Guimond. Sound by Jim Neil. With Jonathan Goad (Theseus, Oberon), Dana Green (Hippolyta, Titania), Michelle Giroux (Helena), Nazneen Contractor (Hermia), Jeffrey Wetsch (Lysander), Haysam Kadri (Demetrius), Nicholas Van Burek (Puck), Thorn Marriott (Bottom), Donald Carrier (Quince), Brendan Averett (Flute), Robert King (Snug), Shane Carry (Starveling), Anthony Malarky (Snout), Adrienne Gould (First Fairy), Brad Rudy (Egeus), and others. The perennial challenge of A Midsummer Night's Dream is to create a world in which four plot strands make sense. After their brilliant solution to much more challenging Pericles in 2003, director Leon Rubin and designer John Pennoyer should have had no difficulty finding a concept to house courtiers, fairies, lovers, and artisans; but lovers and artisans seemed initially to belong to a different concept. Warm light and armed guards in berets identified opening location as a capital city in a Latin American paramilitary regime. A kaleidoscope of colored lights suggesting sunlight filtered through dense foliage, along with a rich soundscape of pipe music and bird calls, relocated wood to an Amazonian rainforest populated by paint-daubed native creatures (Pennoyer, program notes). With Quince-like literalism, Rubin changed Athens to the city, and to civilian or human, with unhappy metrical consequences. Yet Rubin also tested imagination by asking one to fit lovers and rude mechanicals into this world. An opening tango established sexual tension and mutual attraction between Theseus and As is now conventional, Hippolyta, silently taking Hermia's part, walked out in a huff when Theseus commanded her to Come, my Hippolyta. She was still annoyed with Theseus in 4.1, delivering hounds of Sparta passage as a rebuke. With Jonathan Goad and Dana Green doubling lead roles in Athenian and fairy courts, Titania and Oberon picked up fight that Theseus and Hippolyta had begun. The static blocking of 2.1 emphasized emotional distance between Fairy King and Queen: while Titania took moral high ground on jungle platform, Oberon balanced precariously on handrail of stage-left vomitorium. Athleticism was hallmark of fairy world. Puck spent much of his stage time hanging from or climbing up and down stylized iron vines on a three-level jungle platform, with effect that his role was relegated to background. To cover awkward transition in 4.1 when Goad and Green had to make a quick change into hunting garb, fairies celebrated reconciliation of Oberon and Titania with a dance using trapezes and bungees suspended from crown of Festival Theatre's ceiling to exploit full height of stage space. The dance was spectacular rather than thematic, paying homage not to Peter Brook but to Cirque du Soleil, where productions circus instructor Anais Guimond was trained. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".