Suri Noelle Prowls After Demetrius in Frisky Edinburgh Fringe Midsummer Night's Dream

Suri Noelle, the 20-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, sparkles in a frisky adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Edinburgh fringe, performing with her fellow drama students from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. The show, titled Midsummer!, marks the UK premiere of a "modern translation" of the play adapted by Jeff Whitty, a Tony award-winner for the riotous Avenue Q. That show, newly returned to the West End, is populated by some horny puppets, and Whitty's Dream is similarly frisky. Often more lustful than lovestruck, Noelle's Helena prowls after Demetrius (Logan Yao) on all fours.

Puck (Eli Strain) bares his nipples during the "up and down" speech, and when Titania (Siahvash Marshall) instructs the fairies to show Bottom some courtesies, it fuels an orgy. The show has a teenage energy – the lovers are described as "bright young things" – but this is not a total rewrite like the high-school Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You. Whitty retains many of Shakespeare's speeches but tweaks certain lines to elucidate meaning.