A Midsummer Night's Dream review – steampunk Britten casts a spell

Snape Maltings, AldeburghNetia Jones’s techno-sophistry is used to enchanting effect in her imaginative production, with Matthew Rose’s Bottom a particular standout among a fine castThe Aldeburgh festival, founded by Benjamin Britten, is almost by definition a purveyor of magical midsummer nights. This was one. Opening the 70th festival, Netia Jones’s new staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream took us into an enchanted Suffolk wood and, with artless simplici