By William Shakespeare
Directed by Bruce De Les Dernier
This comedy, ranked amongst Shakespeare's most loved plays, is a tale of love, fairy magic, and comic interludes with a host of memorable characters: From the fairy world we get Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the fairies, whose jealous rivalries cause mayhem when they meddle in the affairs of two pairs of young romantics.
They also disrupt the ambitions of a group of cheerful rustics who are about to get the chance of their lives to perform before the noble Duke Theseus. Despite the chaos caused by fairy love potions gone wrong, all ends well as it usually does. It's up to you to judge what is a dream and what is reality.
The origin of a A Midsummer Night's Dream comes from various medevial and Greek romances that Shakespeare undoubtedly knew well. It may have been written to celebrate the marriage of a nobleman of Queen Elizabeth's court around 1594, or it may have been written that year in order to present it to the Queen for the festival of St. John, also called "Midsummer's Night." Presented under the stars in 2002, we invite you to partake of this pleasant vision.