The walls of the A Midsummer Night’s Dream set featured a pneumatic piston system that enabled the walls to be lowered from 90 degrees to a slanted angle. The rigid upright walls were for the everyday world of Athens, while the slanted walls represented the wild, overgrown nighttime chaos of the Forest. Director Michael Butler wished to stage the classic play in a non-traditional way. Butler says, « Midsummer has two distinct worlds: that of the Court with all its rules and constraints, and the forest, which is anarchic, mischievous, erotic. I thought of the play as a gleeful and…