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Lenaea Showcase
(previously called "One Acts")
Come support our Theatre II Honors students as they showcase the material they are bringing to the Lenaea Festival! They will share a brief collection of monologues, scenes, and musical theatre solos. After a ten-minute intermission, they will perform their student-directed and ensemble devised one act play. Tickets are free.
Fall Production: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Family Friendly Performance
This play is family-friendly. Please read the synopsis below to ensure your little ones are able to enjoy the experience. The run time is approximately 2 hours, including a 15-minute intermission.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is arguably William Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. While it was written in Elizabethan England, the play is set in ancient Athens.
While Theseus and Hippolyta prepare for their wedding, Hermia faces an impossible choice: marry Demetrius, become a nun, or face execution. She runs off to the forest with her true love, Lysander, pursued by Demetrius. Helena, Hermia’s best friend, who was recently dumped by Demetrius, follows and helpfully makes everything worse. In the woods, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the fairies) quarrel over a child, and Oberon sends Puck to cast a spell on Titania (for revenge) and one of the Athenian men (to fix the love triangle). Along the way, Puck decides to meddle with a troupe of ancient Athenian community theatre actors who are secretly rehearsing the world’s worst tragedy. The love spell is misapplied, alliances shift hourly, and Titania wakes up smitten with a man sporting the head of a donkey. By dawn, Oberon has set things mostly right, the couples are reshuffled into something resembling order, and Theseus happily declares multiple weddings. The evening ends with a play so badly performed that it becomes comic genius, and Puck tries to make things right with the audience.