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A Midsummer Night's Rave
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Wikipedia article
'A Midsummer Night's Rave' is a 2002 American film adapted from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' released in November 1, 2002. The film stars Corey Pearson, Lauren German, Andrew Keegan, Chad Lindberg, and Sunny Mabrey; and was directed by Gil Cates Jr. It is set at a rave, rather than the forest where most of the original is set. The film received little attention from professional movie critics, but is considered a success with teen audiences, and has been used as an exemplar for a category of movies (the "McShakespeare", an example of McDonaldization) in more academic publications.
Plot and setting
'A Midsummer Night's Rave' transposes 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to modern rave culture. Unlike 'Rave Macbeth'released a year earlier and also adapting a Shakespeare play, 'Macbeth', into the context of rave culture'A Midsummer Night's Rave's' plot also explores the characters' activities outside of the rave: Xander (Andrew Keegan) and Mia (Sunny Mabrey) needs the aid of a rave and a green glowing drug, provided by a British mystic, O. B. John (Jason Carter), to admit their love for each other; a drug dealer, apparently modelled on Shylock, named Doc wants his stolen drug money; and Nick (Chad Lindberg) dons a donkey costume at a daycare center. The plot is significantly altered from the original to "accommodate a homosexual relationship and to allow one liberated woman, Elena (Lauren German), to reject her callow lover."