First performed around 1596, Shakespeare’s comic fantasy of four lovers who find themselves bewitched by fairies is a sly reckoning with love, jealousy and marriage. For centuries it’s been one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays.

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’ Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.

Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.”

CAST LIST

 

Theseus - Nathan Martinson

Hippolyta - Kaiah Gibson

Egeus - Isaac Zerke

Lysander - Ike McIntosh

Demetrius - Jadon Fimon

Hermia - Haylie Meyer

Helena - Ellen Ekins

Philostrate - McKenna Donovan

Peter Quince/Prologue - Keara McIntosh

Snug/Lion - Lillyan Wiese

Nick Bottom/Pyramus - Billi Emeline

Francis Flute/Thisby - Megan Dilley-Jones

Tom Snout/Wall - Alice Osmonson

Robin Starveling/Moonshine - Ella Spear

Oberon - Luke Tapp

Titania - Emma Brekke

Puck - Nadia Hummel

First Fairy/Peaseblossom - McKenna Donovan

Cobweb - Kaiah Gibson

Moth - Hannah Zerke

Mustardseed - TBA

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PERFORMANCES

June 24th & 25th

7:00pm

Jay C Hormel Nature Center