A Midsummer Night's Dream 2002

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.

Two men looking at a woman lying on the ground in a fancy dress
Man and woman in a fancy dress kneeling on the ground and holding hands
Man standing in a strange costume on stage
Man standing in a strange costume on stage
Man and woman lying on the ground under a cover
Cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream lying on the ground
Two men looking at a woman lying on the ground in a fancy dress
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Man and woman in a fancy dress kneeling on the ground and holding hands
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Man standing in a strange costume on stage
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Man standing in a strange costume on stage
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Man and woman lying on the ground under a cover
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Cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream lying on the ground
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Fall 2002 Production

By William Shakespeare

Directed by: Joel Greenberg

Performances: November 13-16, 2002

Venue: Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building