Modern dress is a term used in theatre and film to refer to productions of plays from the past in which the setting is updated to the present day (or at least to a more recent time period), but the text is left relatively unchanged. For example, Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo and Juliet uses a relatively unaltered text of Shakespeare's play but updates the setting to contemporary America.
Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or dress:
“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)
“Let your dress fall down your shoulder,
come touch a copy of you....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)