A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s perfect play, brought together inexperienced but energetic young lovers, cautious but willing middle-aged lovers and a world of spirits who knew too well how easily love can be turned into something comic or tragic.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was, above all, about the thin line between comic and serious attitudes we all tread when we are intoxicated by a love that makes rational behaviour unwelcome and, frankly, deadly dull.
An ensemble of 13 actors doubled and tripled roles in this UW Drama production, and we hoped that the flagrant act of assuming roles and playing out in fantasy what we scarcely allow ourselves to deal with in life shed new responses to one of Shakespeare’s most produced plays.
Fall 2002 Production
By William Shakespeare
Directed by: Joel Greenberg and Meredith Kenzie
Performances: November 13-16, 2002
Venue: Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building
Cast
Lindsey Alston (Hermia)
James Barr (Flure/Thisbe/Peaseblossom)
Matt Borch (Snout/Wall/Cobweb)
Geoff Cowper-Smith (Snug/Lion/Moth)
Nicholas Cumming (Egeus/Quince)
Daniel Errey (Lysander)
Jef Gagnon (Puck/Philostrate)
Steph McKay (Starveling/Moonshine/Mustard Seed)
John E. Robertson (Bottom/Pyramus)
Erika Sedge (Helena)
Jeremy Taylor (Demetrius)
Andy Trithardt (Theseus/Oberon)
Lesley Tumber (Hippolyta/Titania)
Crew
Directors - Joel Greenberg and Meredith Kenzie
Set Designer - Bill Chesney
Lighting Designer - Lesley Wilkinson
Associate Lighting Designer - Wendy Greenwood
Costume Designer - Jocelyne
Sound Designer - Fraser Smith
Production Crew
Stage Manager - Jessica Bowman
Assistant Stage Managers - Jennifer Cook, Sarah O'Neill, Tegan Cassidy
Production Manager - Nicholas Cumming
Technical Director - Scott Spidell
Assistant Technical Director - Fraser Smith
Fight Choreographer - Dylan Roberts
Fight Caption - Jeremy Taylor
Publicity - Joyce Hahn
Publicity Assistant - Erika Kottelenberg
FOH & Publicity Crew - Ariel Bourbonnais, Amaranth Day
Poster & Program Design - Yen Chu Design
Program - Gerd Hauck
Lighting Heads/Board Operators - Darryl Gardner, Avi Caplan
Lighting Crew - Alex Barron, Monika Chmiel, David Devine, Travis Hatt, Denise Hill, Diana Knoll, Glen Lombard, Jessica O'Connor
Carpentry Head - Scott Banks
Carpentry Crew - Rasheed Ali, Heather Bedard, Dana Fernald, Greg More, James Peltzer
Props Head - Rana Salimi
Props Crew - Lori Anderson, Samantha Leask, Laura Thomas
Paint Head - Brett Haynes
Paint Crew - Celeste Dickson, Robyn Joffe, Lucy Lee, Miranda Warner
Wardrobe Head - Leigh McClymont
Wardrobe Assistant - Stephanie Coleman
Wardrobe Crew - Lindsay Alston, Victoria Grant, Krystina Labadie, Eloisa Liquiran, Julia Schuessler
Sound Crew - Sean Chesney, Christina Romasz
Special Thanks
Hiretech Systems
Chris Knarr & Gill Lesperance at Wilfrid Laurier University
Paul Shaw at Canadian Stage Company
The Stratford Festival
Carol Tumber
UW Plant Operations
UW Theatre Centre