Tucked away in an upstairs room at Tallaght's Civic Theatre, six young men are performing a version of this comedy that is as clever as any you could hope for. Director and adapter Donnacadh O'Briain has taken his cue from Peter Quince, whose tradesmen's version of Pyramus and Thisby is so awkwardly but sweetly overnarrated. O'Briain risks redundancy but achieves a satisfying self-referential quality by weaving passages from Charles Lamb's telling of the tale into Shakespeare's text.

And this production, the first from O'Briain's Natural Shocks company, goes one step cleverer by launching the action under florescent lights during a rehearsal gathering of Quince's rude players. This means the six actors are never quite off-stage; each simply transforms himself from an observer to one character and then another with a change of facial expression, a modulation of accent and a flip of one of Chisato Yoshimi's remarkable costumes.

They all do so quite brilliantly. Stephen Cavanagh, Shane Carr and Damien Devaney merit special credit for "becoming", respectively, Titania, Hermia and Helena without resorting to any drag tricks. The inevitable homoeroticism that results from the all-male gathering is pitched quieter than, say, Cheek by Jowl's memorable As You Like It, but adds spice nonetheless.

The overall sense here is of an intelligent, engaged troupe who have immersed themselves in the ideas governing this adaptation. However, in spite of all the magic flowers going around, this is no mere head-trip: when the stage lights are finally lit for Pyramus and Thisby, the physical comedy flows in a way that sent a pair of kids in the audience into a non-stop fit of giggles, and they giggled for all of us. In the absence of any real summer in Dublin, this enchanting Dream is as good as it gets.

Runs until Saturday, nightly at 8.15 p.m.