We all love Shakespeare’s plays but they are rarely done in the dialect of the time. Mr. Mercat and I went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what they said was the original dialect. It was interesting but the acting was pretty awful. And they used a rotating stage a lot and I started to smell the old oil and couldn’t keep track of where the exits were so we left at intermission.
I think probably that one should only see plays that are performed in a language with which one is very familiar. For a fact, I know that when I've seen a play in Spanish, I spend too much time trying to translate it in my (alleged) brain, and invariably lose track of the plot (sigh).