A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Running Time: 1hr 45mins (including intermission)
PURCHASE TICKETS for featured dates by going to our website: stmarys-ca.edu/midsummer
About the Play:
Shakespeare's comedy about Love and Faeries is a lot more dangerous than the usual green-tight treatment reveals. It's a play about the oppositional forces of the State and Wildness, Conscious and Unconscious desires, Order and Chaos, Reason and Passion, and how we balance these forces in our lives. In Athens Theseus is about to wed Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons whose people they have just conquered and colonized, marrying them as a symbolic prize for their conquest. Four young lovers are called before Duke Theseus to be reprimanded for letting their messy love triangle evolve against the wishes of one of the Lovers' father (the patriarchy!). When all four of the Lovers flee into the woods outside Athens to live for their passions, chaos ensues. Meanwhile an amateur troupe of actors rehearse a play for the Duke's wedding day that goes from bad to terrible and out the other side of terrible to hilarious in spite of itself. And finally the King and Queen of the Faeries (Oberon and Titania) are locked in a cruel game of jealous rivalry and humiliations that is causing the Earth's environmental well-being to collapse. All the paths intersect in the woods and powerful and sometimes painful revelations spin out of control. When the sun rises and the Duke's wedding occurs, what choices have been made? Who has compromised? At the end of the play Puck insists that "all is mended" but is it? Can we ever unsee the truths that our dreams show us? How do we reconcile our waking lives with our fantasies?
A limited number of tickets are available at the box office 30 mins before the show. We only accept cash or checks at the box office. Please purchase your tickets online, if possible.
Address: 1928 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga, CA 94556
Please park at the Soda Center.
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Running Time: 1hr 45mins (including intermission)
PURCHASE TICKETS for featured dates by going to our website: stmarys-ca.edu/midsummer
About the Play:
Shakespeare's comedy about Love and Faeries is a lot more dangerous than the usual green-tight treatment reveals. It's a play about the oppositional forces of the State and Wildness, Conscious and Unconscious desires, Order and Chaos, Reason and Passion, and how we balance these forces in our lives. In Athens Theseus is about to wed Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons whose people they have just conquered and colonized, marrying them as a symbolic prize for their conquest. Four young lovers are called before Duke Theseus to be reprimanded for letting their messy love triangle evolve against the wishes of one of the Lovers' father (the patriarchy!). When all four of the Lovers flee into the woods outside Athens to live for their passions, chaos ensues. Meanwhile an amateur troupe of actors rehearse a play for the Duke's wedding day that goes from bad to terrible and out the other side of terrible to hilarious in spite of itself. And finally the King and Queen of the Faeries (Oberon and Titania) are locked in a cruel game of jealous rivalry and humiliations that is causing the Earth's environmental well-being to collapse. All the paths intersect in the woods and powerful and sometimes painful revelations spin out of control. When the sun rises and the Duke's wedding occurs, what choices have been made? Who has compromised? At the end of the play Puck insists that "all is mended" but is it? Can we ever unsee the truths that our dreams show us? How do we reconcile our waking lives with our fantasies?
A limited number of tickets are available at the box office 30 mins before the show. We only accept cash or checks at the box office. Please purchase your tickets online, if possible.
Address: 1928 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga, CA 94556
Please park at the Soda Center.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Running Time: 1hr 45mins (including intermission)
PURCHASE TICKETS for featured dates by going to our website: stmarys-ca.edu/midsummer
About the Play:
Shakespeare's comedy about Love and Faeries is a lot more dangerous than the usual green-tight treatment reveals. It's a play about the oppositional forces of the State and Wildness, Conscious and Unconscious desires, Order and Chaos, Reason and Passion, and how we balance these forces in our lives. In Athens Theseus is about to wed Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons whose people they have just conquered and colonized, marrying them as a symbolic prize for their conquest. Four young lovers are called before Duke Theseus to be reprimanded for letting their messy love triangle evolve against the wishes of one of the Lovers' father (the patriarchy!). When all four of the Lovers flee into the woods outside Athens to live for their passions, chaos ensues. Meanwhile an amateur troupe of actors rehearse a play for the Duke's wedding day that goes from bad to terrible and out the other side of terrible to hilarious in spite of itself. And finally the King and Queen of the Faeries (Oberon and Titania) are locked in a cruel game of jealous rivalry and humiliations that is causing the Earth's environmental well-being to collapse. All the paths intersect in the woods and powerful and sometimes painful revelations spin out of control. When the sun rises and the Duke's wedding occurs, what choices have been made? Who has compromised? At the end of the play Puck insists that "all is mended" but is it? Can we ever unsee the truths that our dreams show us? How do we reconcile our waking lives with our fantasies?
A limited number of tickets are available at the box office 30 mins before the show. We only accept cash or checks at the box office. Please purchase your tickets online, if possible.
Address: 1928 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga, CA 94556
Please park at the Soda Center.
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Running Time: 1hr 45mins (including intermission)
PURCHASE TICKETS for featured dates by going to our website: stmarys-ca.edu/midsummer
About the Play:
Shakespeare's comedy about Love and Faeries is a lot more dangerous than the usual green-tight treatment reveals. It's a play about the oppositional forces of the State and Wildness, Conscious and Unconscious desires, Order and Chaos, Reason and Passion, and how we balance these forces in our lives. In Athens Theseus is about to wed Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons whose people they have just conquered and colonized, marrying them as a symbolic prize for their conquest. Four young lovers are called before Duke Theseus to be reprimanded for letting their messy love triangle evolve against the wishes of one of the Lovers' father (the patriarchy!). When all four of the Lovers flee into the woods outside Athens to live for their passions, chaos ensues. Meanwhile an amateur troupe of actors rehearse a play for the Duke's wedding day that goes from bad to terrible and out the other side of terrible to hilarious in spite of itself. And finally the King and Queen of the Faeries (Oberon and Titania) are locked in a cruel game of jealous rivalry and humiliations that is causing the Earth's environmental well-being to collapse. All the paths intersect in the woods and powerful and sometimes painful revelations spin out of control. When the sun rises and the Duke's wedding occurs, what choices have been made? Who has compromised? At the end of the play Puck insists that "all is mended" but is it? Can we ever unsee the truths that our dreams show us? How do we reconcile our waking lives with our fantasies?
A limited number of tickets are available at the box office 30 mins before the show. We only accept cash or checks at the box office. Please purchase your tickets online, if possible.
Address: 1928 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga, CA 94556
Please park at the Soda Center.
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