Director’s Note:
In 1924, André Breton wrote in his Surrealist Manifesto, “Perhaps the imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights…For, at least from man’s birth to his death, thought presents no solution of continuity; the sum of dreaming moments – even taking into consideration pure dream alone, that of sleep – is from the point of view of time no less than the sum of moments of reality, which we shall confine to waking moments.” In other words, we spend as much time dreaming during sleep as we do thinking while awake. Why then do we place such priority on our waking hours? I take Shakespeare’s title literally. It really is a dream. Throughout our process, we have explored just what it means to create a dream scape, and as Puck says in the final act, “The best in this kinda are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.”
Directed & Designed by Charles M Pepiton
Costume Design by Brenda Fuller
Dramatis Personae & 7 Actor Doubling
- Men
- Nick Hoenshell – Theseus, Oberon, Snug
- Andrew Evans – Lysander, Nick Bottom
- Chris Wilson – Demetrius, Francis Flute, Mustardseed
- Women
- Erica Curnutte – Puck
- Summer Gibson – Hippolyta, Titania, Peter Quince
- Jessi Hampton – Hermia, Tom Snout, Cobweb
- Rachel Morgan – Helena, Egeus, Robin Starveling, Peaseblossom
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