This version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was performed by students at a liberal arts college in South India. The lovers and royalty were in western dress on holiday in India, where they encountered Fairies in fanciful Indian dress and Rude Mechanicals as Indian workmen. Using an impulse from Shakespeare, these social distinictions gave Indian workmen and women a voice, a stage before the king (an injustice still in India today). The wavering course of love found in Midsummers was heightened in this version by the clash between western notions of a love marriage of choice and a traditional Indian arraigned marriage. The western lovers being in a Indian setting provided rich layers of cultural dialogue and theatrical portent.