a midsummer night's dream
by William Shakespeare
directed by Ryan Howe
In the darkness of the woods, lover’s spar, fairies scheme, and artists dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare most produced and well-loved plays, has thrilled and amused audiences for four centuries with a mixture of whimsy and menace. Bakerloo’s outstanding company of actors will revel in Shakespeare’s nightmare of a comedy.
Worlds will collide…Love potions will be prescribed…
Night creatures will misbehave…
And someone will be turned into an ass.
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You are that shrewd and knavish sprite call'd Robin Goodfellow. Are you not he that frights the maidens of the villagery, mislead night wanderers, laughing at their harm?
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
-A Midsummer Night's Dream
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake
-Rene Descartes
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-M. C. Escher
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
-Tupac Shakur