Tim Ashley [The Guardian, 28 November 2005]

"Which dreamed it?" asks Alice at the end of Through the Looking Glass. Many, I suspect, will be pondering the same question at the end of Olivia Fuchs's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which presents Benjamin Britten's opera as a series of interconnected dreamscapes, yet keeps us in suspense as to who the dreamers really are.