The Theatre Company Presents...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

DATES:
Saturdays, May 5 & 12, 2012 at 7:30pm
Sundays, May 6 & 13, 2012 at 2:00pm

Ticket prices for Members: $8 for adults; $6 for students and senior citizens (with valid ID); and $4 for children 12 and under.
Ticket prices for Non-Members: $10 for adults; $8 for students and senior citizens (with valid ID); and $5 for children 12 and under.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's early comedies, apparently written as light entertainment to accompany a marriage celebration. Unlike the vast majority of his works (including all of his comedies), Shakespeare did not rely directly upon existing plays, narrative poetry, historical chronicles, or any other primary source materials (other than his loose adaptation of the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe for the play-within-a-play in Act V) as his inspiration or narrative basis, and while many critics opine that the young Shakespeare was not at his best in this play, the joyful circumstances of its composition certainly left him writing a delightful bit of entertainment that goes beyond its surface silliness to explore themes of love and dreams, and to show (as much as declare) that the highest use of creative imagination is to be tuned in to the supernatural world to bring the blessings of nature to mankind—and, especially, to marriage.

The main plot of Midsummer involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated still further by their entrance into the play's fairyland woods, where the King and Queen of the Fairies (Oberon and Titania) preside and the impish folk character of Puck or Robin Goodfellow plies his trade.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is in the midst of casting at the moment; be sure to return to this page for more information as it becomes available, as well as joining The Theatre Company's group on Facebook and subscribing to the OAC's enews.

A Midsummer Night's Dream will be performed on the Lyric stage on two successive Saturdays and Sundays—the 5th, 6th, 12, and 13th of May, 2012.