Modern Dress

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:

    The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (b.1941)