A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

December 8, 2007

Wauwatosa East High School

December 15, 2007

Wauwatosa West High School

January 13, 2008

Nathan Hale High School, West Allis

February 10, 2008

Cedarburg Cultural Center

June 21, 2008

Lakefront Festival of the Arts, Milwaukee

A Midsummer Night's Dream was the Village Playhouse's 2008 traveling children's production. This show travels to various locations in the metropolitan area.  All shows are open to the public with tickets available at the door.  (At the Lakefront Festival of the Arts the performance is free with admission to the grounds) 

The play revolves around the adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The story takes place in Midsummer and is a complex farce featuring Hermia & Lysander and Helena & Demetrius. Their romantic intrigues are confused and complicated still further by entering the forest where Oberon, the King of the Fairies and his Queen, Titania, preside. Puck (or Robin Goodfellow) is a major character who is full of mischief and tricks. Other visitors to the enchanted forest include Bottom the weaver and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince and Flute the amateur dramatists who want to rehearse their terrible but hilarious version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe.