Russell T Davies defends adding lesbian kiss to the BBC's A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'It's 2016'

There will be a lesbian kiss in Russell T Davies’ BBC reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream whether Shakespeare aficionados like it or not.

Davies is diverging from the playwright’s original comedy to make fairy queen Titania and Amazonian queen Hippolyta share a kiss at the end.

“The plays reinvent themselves constantly, every generation does them differently, so if there’s a problem kiss me instead!”