A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
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Place
A Courtyard in Athens and a nearby wood
There will be one fifteen minute intermission
Cast (in order of appearance)
Theseus: Chris LeBlanc
Hippolyta: Anne Selcoe
Philostrate: Joe McGugar
Egeus: Troy Lambert
Hermia: Danté Autrey
Lysander: Jordan Daugherty
Demetrius: Erik Satren
Helena: Monica Thomas
Quince: Zach Shallbetter
Bottom: Jeff Mollgaard
Flute: Luke StormoGipsen
Snug: Enrique Oseguera
Snout: Jared Alme
Starveling: Clint Fisk
Fairy: Savannah Forno
Puck: Tory Belit
Oberon: T.C. Parker
Oberon’s Attendants: Ce’Nedra Thomas
Alysha Thomas
Titania: Ariel Cansino
Peaseblossom: Kristen Oliver
Cobweb: Whittney Hawk
Mustardseed: Kendra Jackson
Moth: Amanda Gallegos
Production Staff
Choreography: Lorna Hamilton
Director: Joe Jacoby
Stage Manager: Arron Craft
Production Assistant: Lenore Speer
Scene Design: Justin Van Eaton
Costume Design: Judith McGiveney
Lighting Design: John Gallegos
Technical Director: John Gallegos
Properties: Lizz Horton
Scenic Painting: Donna Graham, Jamie Murphy
Set Construction: Meggin Gallegos, John Gallegos, Eric Nowak, Charles Gift, Patty Baker, Chicken Foot Enterprises, Stagecraft 103 students
Costume crew: Lenore Speer
Lighting crew:
John Gallegos, Eric Nowack, Meggin Gallegos
Makeup: Jenny Kolodziej, the cast
Hair Styling: Wendy Gallegos
Light Board Operator: Christy Kelly
Sound Board Operator: Zach Meier
Sound Design: Allan Konigsberg
Squirrel Wrangler: Jamie Murphy
Poster Design/Program Cover: Matthew Cutshall
Publicity: Stacy Zehm and College Relations
Program: Matthew Cutshall
House Manager: Patty Baker
Acknowledgements
Kendall White, Chicken Foot Enterprises, Virginia Johnson, Terry Jones, Gerard Mathes, Janet Warner, Campus Safety
Director’s Notes
A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been an audience favorite for quite some time. You don’t need me to tell you that – many of you already know, and that’s why many of you are here. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the few plays where William Shakespeare did not base the plot on an existing story or historical event. That said, many individual elements of the play can be traced to a variety of earlier sources.
Placing the play in time is nearly impossible. Theseus and Hippolyta live 800 BCE, the story of Pyramus and Thisby comes from the 2nd century CE, and the workmen presenting their play are Shakespeare’s 1590s contemporaries. In addition, Midsummer Eve occurs near the solstice, but Theseus remarks that the events occur during the rite of May. In addition to difficulty with time is the difficulty of geography. Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers are from Athens, the workmen are from England, and Puck is based on a Scottish sprite. What holds the disparate times and places together is the magic of the wood where the fairies live and lovers meet. The wood is a crossroads intersecting time and space, reality and fantasy, wakefulness and dreaming, magic and the mundane, where all things become possible.
The play’s popularity has a great deal to do with the sheer exuberance of the writing. One can easily imagine Shakespeare laughing out loud as he wrote some of the scenes. The quality of the play that makes it timeless rests in the play’s humanity, however; not its humor. The characters struggle to act with integrity but allow themselves to become distracted by various fears and desires of the moment. Underpinning the characters is a beautiful, childlike innocence.
We hope that you enjoy this journey to the woods of magic, mirth, and endless possibility.
Produced Oct. 26 - 28, Nov. 2 - 4, 2006