When a director selects a show that he or she will be staging, there is without a doubt a process that they will go through when determining in which direction that the production will proceed in. One of the most important aspects of this process is called the concept. In the case of the director, a concept would be a central idea that unifies all elements of the production to make it unique. Nowadays, many directors look at a Shakespearean play and do what they can to construct a world that is more easily accessible to the hoi polloi. This may include setting Hamlet on Mars, or turning A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a musical set in the 1980s. While this may create a visually pleasing and entertaining aesthetic, much of the important aspects