SIUE Summer Theater Presents Shakespeare’s Most Popular Comedy – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream continues on stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, July 13-14 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 15 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Metcalf Theater.
The play, adapted and directed by Department of Theater and Dance Chair Chuck Harper, will close out SIUE’s 2018 Summer Theater season.
General admission is $15 for adults and $12 for others. SIUE students attending summer classes, receive free admission with valid identification.
Tickets can be purchased Monday-Friday at the Summer Theater box office in Katherine Dunham Hall, room 1042b, or two hours before each performance in the Metcalf Theater box office. Tickets can also be purchased by calling 618-650-2774 or toll free at 1-888-328-5168, extension 2774.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest and end up with comic results. In the city of Theseus, the duke of Athens is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, while the comic character, Bottom the Weaver, and his friends, rehearse a play in the woods which they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations. Meanwhile, four young Athenians are in a romantic tangle! Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander, and her friend Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia’s father, Egeus, commands Hermia to marry Demetrius, while Theseus supports the father’s position.
All entanglements get resolved in classic Shakespeare style.
The Summer Theater production’s scenic design is by Roger Speidel, costume design is by Maggie Conroy and light design is by Valerie Goldston. Amy Riddle is the stage manager and Elizabeth Hernandez is the assistant stage manager.
For more information, email theater-tickets@siue.edu. For directions and parking, visit siue.edu\maps.
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Photo courtesy by Valerie Goldston: Actors shown from left to right are Shane Signorino, Delaney Piggins and Jeff Skoblow.
