India, Jan. 29 -- Frustrated by the Hindi translations of William Shakespeare's works available to him, playwright Amitosh Nagpal picked up his pen and infused colloquial Hindi, some Bhojpuri and even gibberish into Twelfth Night. This was 13 years ago, and the result was director Atul Kumar's Piya Behrupiya, the musical, which played to packed houses in every city it ever travelled to - Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Ahmedabad, even London, where it was staged at the Globe Theatre - for 11 years. "I couldn't relate to the translations, so I did my own," said Nagpal.

On February 9, he returns to Delhi with Middle Class Dream of a Summer's Night, an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, as a part of the National School o...