Donkey shows are no longer for creepy TJ tourists or Clerks fans. The Donkey Show’s been refined and brought to our backyard.

Take Shakespeare, slap on some boobs, acrobatics, and disco and you have Harvard Square’s latest sensationThe Donkey Show, at the American Repertory Theater’s Club Oberon.

The Donkey Show is a remix on a Shakespeare classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a story of love, magic, and dreams.

In the modern twist on the classic, director Diane Paulus encourages audiences to revel on the dance floor while the story unfolds next to, above, and around them.

This approach to environmental theater puts audience members into the plot line. The stage is the dance club and Shakespeare’s mystical forest. Call it Club Oberon or the former Zero Arrow Theater turned Studio 54.

Audience members become immersed in the show, with its disco hits from the ’70s, as active participants in magic and wonder. Characters and patrons explore fantasy to tunes like “Ring My Bell” and “We Are Family.”

After a six-year run in New York City and a world tour from London to Seoul, The Donkey Show has now set up its stall in Boston, winning rave reviews, linking disco and Shakespeare. There’s more in common than one would expect. Toying with passion, sexuality, and desire, Shakespeare could be an early disco Godfather, pioneering lyrics that grapple with erotica and wanting.

It might be a dance club, but Oberon is student-friendly, open to all 18 and older, and the American Repertory Theater offers student rush tickets; any full-time student with ID is eligible for $15 tickets on the day of the show, subject to availability. Pay What You Can allows diehard theater rats to shell out as little as a dollar up front for those low on cash. If all else fails, dance floor tickets are $25 while tables are $49 a head.

Theater sometimes is hard to understand for those not well versed in stage art. But everyone gets a good party, and The Donkey Shows are that.

When she turns down the disco, Jennifer Choi can be reached at jenchoi@bu.edu. Or get her on twitter @jenchoi with your best Donkey Show memories.

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