British director Tim Supple spent a year travelling back and forth from India to prepare for this epic version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Starring 23 actors, acrobats, dancers and musicians, the play features the usual horde of mischievous fairies, besotted youths and warring monarchs—only this time they torment each other in eight languages: English, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Sinhalese, Bengali and Sanskrit. June 6 to 15. $50–$70. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria St. The National Theatre of Scotland weighs in on Iraq with Black Watch, its acclaimed 2006 play named for the country’s oldest Highland regiment. Inspired by former soldiers’ first-hand accounts of the so-called war on terror, Gregory Burke’s work was produced extensively across Scotland before making its way to L.A., New York and now Toronto. June 6 to 15. $46. Varsity Arena, 275 Bloor St. W. Best known in English Canada for her collaborations with Robert Lepage, Marie Brassard is artistic royalty in her home province of Quebec. The director, playwright and performer joins forces with local 40-year theatre vet Louis Negin for The Glass Eye, an odd play within a play based on Negin’s 2005 one-man show. It seems that even in the mid-20th-century Torontonians dreamed of escaping to Montreal: Negin’s mix of fact and fiction tells the story of a gay youth who moves east and falls for the city’s glamorous underbelly. June 10 to 13. $35. Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 231 Queens Quay W. A member of British Columbia’s Nlaka’pamux First Nation, Vancouver actor and playwright Kevin Loring premieres his latest work, Where the Blood Mixes. Soon to be reunited with the child he handed over to social services 20 years earlier, an aboriginal man is riddled with guilt—what kind of fate did he leave her to? June 7 and 8. $35. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. Loring also takes part in a staged reading marking the 40th anniversary of The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, George Ryga’s groundbreaking drama about a Native woman whose move to the city ends in tragedy. June 8. $25. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St.—Stéphanie Verge