A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare, Present Company at Rain Lily Farm, September 13 - October 6, 2013

 [performing at Rain Lily Farm, 914 Shady Lane, Austin 78702 - CLICK FOR MAP]

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(poster design: Sarah Presson for Present Company)

by William Shakespeare

September 13 - October 6, 2013

Fridays - Sundays from 7 p.m

Rain Lily Farm, east Austin, CLICK FOR MAP

Present Company presents our fifth Shakespeare On the Farm: A Midsummer Night's Dream, September 13th-October 6th at the magical Rain Lily Farm in East Austin. Performances run Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings, with seating at 7pm.  Bring a picnic and come spread your blanket under the stars as we present Shakespeare's well-known tale of lovers, fairies, and an actor transformed into an ass.

Promoting the philosophy of "accessible & sustainable art," Shakespeare on the Farm is FREE, but a suggested donation of $10 helps support the event.

Rain Lily Farm is located at 914 Shady Lane, ATX, 78702. Street parking is available.

www.presentcompanytheatre. com

Directed by Lindsay Doleshal with an other-worldly original score by Jason Farmer and Meason Wiley, A Midsummer Night's Dream also features the talents of Aaron Black, Rene Fulton, Mateo Barerra, Jeff Britt, Stephanie Carll, Raymond Wortel, Dan Dalbout, Samuel Grimes, Omid Ghrashi, Hondo Powell, Marnie Castor, Kelly Sardinas, Ky Cleveland, and Saige Hilton

Present Company is a sponsored project of the Austin Creative Alliance.

Many thanks to our generous sponsors:Hayes Carll, Farmhouse Delivery, Rain Lily Design & Landscaping, Dripping Springs Vodka, Hops & Grain Brewery, Zhi Tea,D&J Blueline, and Eastside Lumber & Decking.

SEE Y'ALL ON THE FARM!!!

Present Company Theatre
theatre. education. collaboration.

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Auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream and for Street Theatre, Present Company, May 23 and 26, 2013

Present Company is thrilled to announce auditions for our next two projects, Shakespeare On the Farm: A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Happenstance. First-round auditions for both projects will be Thursday, May 23rd, 6:30-9pm at the Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina Street (click for map ) and Sunday May 26th, 2-5pm at The Circus Tent, 6404 Hergotz Lane (click for map). 

Please email headshot/resume, ideal audition time, and specified project (actors are welcome to audition for both!) to presentcompanyaustin@gmail.com for an appointment. Walk-ins will be seen as time allows. All projects have actor stipends/profit shares.

Our fifth Shakespeare On the Farm, A Midsummer Night's Dream, will open the second week of September at the magical Rain Lily Farm in East Austin. Rehearsals will begin late July/early August. Actors are asked to prepare a 2-minute comedic Shakespearean monologue. Callbacks will be Saturday, June 1st at Rain Lily Farm, 10-2 pm.

AND

Happenstance, a roaming street theatre piece, will be performed in and around Austin at various times and locations. Happenstance is based in movement, rhythm, and rhyme, and we are looking for triple threats and good movers unafraid of some fun displays of public performance. This is a collaborative endeavor in which all participants contribute to the creation of the piece. Rehearsals will begin late June. Please have a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue or poem (original encouraged) prepared. Movement-oriented callbacks will be the following week.

Thanks and break legs!

Playing this week: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Red Dragon Players, Austin High School, November 15 - 17

The AHS Red dragon players

present



A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

November 15 - 17

Thursday - Saturday, 7:00 PM
$5 per person

AUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL

PREAS THEATRE

1715 W. CESAR CHAVEZ

Proceeds from this production will help pay for our upcoming musical.
visit www.RedDragonPlayers.com for more details.

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Upcoming: Midsummer in Motion, Austin Bike Zoo, May 25 - June 3

The Austin Bike Zoo

presents

MIDSUMMER IN MOTION

 

A Pedal-Powered Shakespearean Fantasy!
Featuring performers from Sky Candy
music by The Inheritance
drected by Rudy Ramirez

The Austin Bike Zoo cordially invites you to pedal on down to Republic Square Park and Brush Square for a circus-commedia-gender-bending-Midsummer-Night's-Dream-for-the-whole-family . . . ON BIKES!

starring Haydee Antunano, Caleb Britton, Cassidy Browning, Jennifer Davis, Trey Deason, Isaac Gomez, Shannon Grounds, Harrison Harvey, Mindy Rast-Keenan, Karen Rodriguez, Justin Scalise, Harley Jacob Schmalz and Melissa Vogt-Patterson

featuring Sky Candy performers Celeste Bliss, Chelsea Laumen and Joanna Wright and original music by Bruce Salmon and The Inheritance!

REPUBLIC SQUARE PARK SHOWS (5th and Guadalupe):
Thursday, May 24th
Saturday, May 26th
Thursday, May 31st
Saturday, June 2nd
Sunday, June 3rd

BRUSH SQUARE SHOW (5th and Neches):
Friday, June 1st

All shows start at 7:30pm and are ABSOLUTELY FREE!

We are also seeking VOLUNTEERS to be bike riders and fairy extras! People of all ages can apply! Contact austinbikezoo@gmail.com for more information!

The Austin Bike Zoo is dedicated to creating human-powered performances that enliven urban green-spaces and celebrate the most energy-efficient mode of transportation ever invented. http://www.austinbikezoo.org/

Upcoming at Shakespeare in Winedale, summer, 2012:Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare at Winedale

announces its 42nd Summer Season:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale and Coriolanus

By William Shakespeare

July 19^th-August 12^th

Shakespeare at Winedale Theater Barn

Winedale Historical Complex, Round Top, TX (click for map)

TICKETS: $10 General Admission; $5 Student/UT ID Holders

Available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726

Click to download the summer schedule in .pdf format

Shakespeare at Winedale’s 2012 summer class takes the stage this summer with performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, and, for the first time at Winedale, Coriolanus. Performances will begin July 19th and run through August 12th; performances are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 7:30pm with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission or $5 for students/UT ID holders and may be ordered online through the Shakespeare at Winedale website www.shakespeare-winedale.org.

Shakespeare at Winedale is a University of Texas program in which students study and perform Shakespeare at the Winedale Historical Complex near Round Top. Since its founding by English professor James Ayres in 1970, the program’s unique, hands-on approach has brought Shakespeare’s words to life for hundreds of students and thousands of audience members. University students from many disciplines and backgrounds work together for six weeks at Winedale, ending their summer with four weekends of performances in a converted nineteenth-century hay barn.

For the first time in the program’s history, this summer’s class will perform Shakespeare’s riveting political thriller Coriolanus. “We are very excited to be doing the Winedale premiere of Coriolanus,” said program Director James Loehlin, “one of Shakespeare’s richest explorations of politics-- perfect for an election year! Coriolanus is set in the earliest days of the Roman republic, but still pertinent today.”

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Images by Michael Bailey for the American Shakespeare Center TOur of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Feb. 22) and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (Feb. 23)

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare

and

‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE by John Ford

Presented by the University of Texas at Austin’s English Department, Shakespeare at Winedale, SHOUT, the Mary Lu Joynes Endowment in the Plan II Honors Program, the School of Undergraduate Studies, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the study of Core Texts and Ideas, the Center for European Studies, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Department of Theatre and Dance.

February 22 & 23, 2012.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Wednesday @ 7:30 PM; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore on Thursday @ 7:30 PM. Pre-show for both performances begin at 7 pm.

Student Activity Center’s Black Box Theater, Rm. 2.304, 2100 Speedway on the UT campus.

TICKETS: General Admission - $15

Available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726.

Click for director Jim Warren's notes on 'Tis Pity She's A Whore

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Upcoming: A Midsummer Night's Dream, American Shakespeare Center at University of Texas Student Activity Center, February 22

Presented by the University of Texas at Austin’s English Department, Shakespeare at Winedale, SHOUT, the Mary Lu Joynes Endowment in the Plan II Honors Program, the School of Undergraduate Studies, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the study of Core Texts and Ideas, the Center for European Studies, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Department of Theatre and Dance.

'Almost Blasphemy' tour performs

Serious Mischief by William Shakespeare

UT Student Activity Center Black Box Theater, Rm 2.304, 2001 Speedway (click for map)

Wednesday, February 22, 7 p.m.

General Admission - $15 - tickets available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726.

The theatre will open for seating at 7:00 pm. At this time, live pre-show music will also begin. The performance will begin at 7:30 pm. Seats for the performances are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so audience members are encouraged to arrive early, take their seats, and enjoy the music.

There will be a post-show discussion with members of the company immediately after A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? -- III.iA Midsummer Night’s Dream’s theatrical spell is powerful enough to make audiences of all ages believe in anything. Shakespeare’s mischievous comedy of lovers, heroes, fairies, and rude mechanicals is his tribute to humankind’s power of imagination.

Click for review of a December, 2011 performance at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA

Upcoming: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dripping Springs High School Theatre, November 3 - 5

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Dripping Springs High School Theatre Department

presents

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

November 3 - 5 at 7:30 p.m., matinee at 2 p.m., Saturday, November 5

Dripping Springs High School, 940 Highway 290 West (click for map)

TICKETS $6 students / $10 adults, at the door or on-line via Front Gate Tickets

Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? We don't care! -- we just want to perform them for you. Take the trip out to the fancy-pants Dripping Springs High School Auditorium Theater and see our version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, complete with all the fairies, donkey heads, and mixed-up lovers you could possibly want. Directed by Rachael Koske with technical direction by Becky White.


Don't think you like Shakespeare? DSHS Theatre is up to the challenge of changing your mind. Already a fan? Then you will love this faithful retelling of the Bard's classic. Three exciting plotlines intersect in A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. Dripping Springs High School Theatre presents it as the first show of the exciting 2011-2012 season, in the new DSISD Auditorium Theatre! Many enjoyed last year's splashy production of the musical, "Footloose", and we now invite you to experience the first full-length non-musical production in this beautiful space!

Set in a 1920's era Athens, the audience follows the cast of "Midsummer" through a mythical enchanted forest as the inhabitants of the fairy world create havoc on their plans and their love lives! As Shakespeare writes in the play, "The course of true love never did run smooth."

DSHS' Rachael Koske directs 29 student performers in this production, with a crew of 16 led by technical director Becky White. Scenic and lighting designs by White set off period costumes designed by Koske and Ellie Blackwood. The music of Duke Ellington's Three Suites helps set the mood of this off-kilter, surprising, and oft-hilarious play. Come dream away an evening with us!

Performances are in the DSISD Auditorium Theatre at 7:30 pm on November 3, 4, and 5, with an additional matinee performance on November 5 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $6.00 for students and $10.00 for adults, and are available at the door. The Box Office opens one hour before each performance.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Weird Sisters Theatre Collective at Center Stage on Real, August 18 - 27

by Michael Meigs

Once a year, a theatre production of the Weird Sisters Collective briefly appears like a friendly comet in the Austin evenings. Like comets, they're "wanderers," at least in recent years -- you need to be alert for news of them each July or August, because the venues for their productions have changed from year to year.

They had planned to do the Jacobean drama The Roaring Girl by Dekker and Middleton, under the guidance of their friend Dr. Lizz Ketterer, but Ketterer's unexpected death in February left them adrift. They turned to comfort theatre -- Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of those reliable pieces that, as Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle once commented, comes around on Austin stages with the regularity of clockwork.

Faires' observation was accurate. A Midsummer Night's Dream is familiar and beloved for its airy fantasy and good-hearted mockery of the predicaments of love. We all enjoy white magic, whether it involves transformation of brash tradesman Bottom into an ass or transformation of love-besotted young persons into fools. Plus, it's the shortest of Shakespeare's plays.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Playhouse Smithville, September 9 - 24

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"The course of true love never runs smooth. . . ."

September 9 - 24, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

110 Main Street, Smithville, TX 78957

(512) 360-7397 - playhousesmithville@yahoo.com

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE (single tickets $10; season tickets $60 for one, $55 each for two or more)

Auditions forA Midsummer Night's Dream, Playhouse Smithville, August 6

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Auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream are scheduled for August 6, 2011, 2pm at Playhouse Smithville. Rehearsals will run from August 8th to September 8th with performances September 9-24, 7:30pm. No prepared piece is necessary. Come ready to move and make noise, roll on the floor and shout to the ceiling! No previous experience necessary, all experiences appreciated. This show is about fantasy, love and fun. Auditions held at the Playhouse, 110 Main Street, Smithville, TX. Call 512-360-7397 or visit www.playhousesmithville.com for more info.

Playhouse Smithville
110 Main Street
Smithville, TX 78957
512-360-7397
www.playhousesmithville.com

Upcoming: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Weird Sisters Theatre Collective at Center Stage, August 18 - 27

Found on-line

present

August 18-21 and 25-27, 8pm & Sunday at 2pm

Center Stage Texas – 2826 Real Street (click for map)

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Austin’s favorite all-woman troupe is back for their seventh annual production, keeping Shakespeare weird with a modern rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Austin Lovers Hermia and Lysandra long to don their wedding dresses and make a lifetime commitment to one another, but Hermia’s father Egeus implores Republican governor Theseus to throw the book at the same-sex couple to make room for his preferred son-in-law Demetrius, who is in turn lusted after by the lovely and lovelorn Helena.

The four skip town, seeking solace in the hill country woods, but even their high quality R.E.I. gear can’t keep them safe from the machinations of the meddling Puck and the fairy courts of Oberon and Titania.

Join the Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective from August 18-21 and 25-27 in this whimsically relevant take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Tickets are available online at Brownpapertickets.com and at the door. Sliding scale, $10-$30

In the meantime, be sure to follow us on Twitter @weirdsistersatx and like us on Facebook to keep abreast (ahem) of all of our doings. If you’re feeling adventurous, why not sign up for our newsletter at the website? We’ll send you an email next time we put on a play, salon, or a fabulous fundraiser.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Baron's Men at the Curtain Theatre, September 24 - October 16

You've got only one weekend remaining of this delight, and the Baron's Men have even added a Thursday performance. Don't hesitate!

A Midsummer Night's Dream may well be Shakespeare's most familiar comedy. In his review of Austin theatre for the World Theatre Day celebration last April Robert Faires noted it as one of those plays that "circle round again and again like pop songs in heavy rotation." You have to admit it: he's right. The Tex-Arts youth program did the show ten days before his remarks, then Austin Shakespeare did it in Zilker Park with 1960's style pop music and just a couple of weeks ago the four traveling Actors from the London Stage did it at UT and out at Winedale. So we probably all know the text.

But this is not like watching re-runs of "I Dream of Jeannie." The familiar text is a springboard. The company of the Baron's Men bring that text to sparkling life in every aspect of their production.

Click to read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Images of Midsummer Night's Dream by the Baron's Men at the Curtain Theatre, September 24 - October 16

Images by Kimberley Mead and by Mark Vittek:

Magic, Mirth and Mayhem...

The Baron's Men is pleased to announce our re-telling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This spectacularly beautiful production will include live music and dancing, rich Elizabethan costuming and masks, warring fairy armies, and fabulous magical effects all in a scale replica of the Globe Theater on the shores of Lake Austin.

The production runs Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00PM, September 24 through October 16 at The Curtain Theatre, with a Goblin Market showcasing local vendors and entertainers, nightly from 7:00PM - 8:00PM.

Appropriate for the entire family!

Click to view additional images of the Baron's Men production of Midsummer Night's Dream

Images of Midsummer Night's Dream by the Baron's Men at the Curtain Theatre, September 24 - October 16

Images by Kimberley Mead and by Mark Vittek:

Magic, Mirth and Mayhem...

The Baron's Men is pleased to announce our re-telling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This spectacularly beautiful production will include live music and dancing, rich Elizabethan costuming and masks, warring fairy armies, and fabulous magical effects all in a scale replica of the Globe Theater on the shores of Lake Austin.

The production runs Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00PM, September 24 through October 16 at The Curtain Theatre, with a Goblin Market showcasing local vendors and entertainers, nightly from 7:00PM - 8:00PM.

Appropriate for the entire family!

Click to view additional images of the Baron's Men production of Midsummer Night's Dream at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Midsummer Night's Dream, Actors from the London Stage at UT and Winedale, September 27 - October 2

Link provided by an Austin Shakespearian:

Actors From The London Stage present

A Midsummer Night's Dream

UT McCullough Theatre Monday, Sept 27 - Friday, October 1, 7:30 p.m.

Winedale Theater Barn- Round Top, Texas, Sat, October 2, 2010 • 7:00 PM

Actors from the London Stage returns to The University of Texas at Austin this fall with a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Employing just five actors to assume all the roles in a Shakespearean drama, Actors from the London Stage performances are minimalists in terms of props and staging, intimate and compelling. The performances emphasize language, characterization, and dramatic energy; the results are startlingly clear and powerful, even magical, for audiences of all ages in a way that large-scale productions in the big theaters of Stratford and London can never be. The actors also lead workshops in classes around campus.

This year's residency will begin on September 27, and performances will be September 29-October 1, at 7:30pm at the McCullough Theatre on campus. Tickets to on-campus performances will be available at the UT Performing Arts Center website (NOTE: none listed as of September 8). Tickets are $20 general admission, $10 for all UT ID holders, college and non-college students, and seniors. Please be aware that there are service charges associated with purchasing tickets from the UT PAC.

For an extra special performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, come out to Winedale for the Saturday night performance at 7:00 on October 2. Tickets to the Winedale AFTLS performance are available now. Tickets are $10 for UT ID holders and non-UT students; $20 for others.

Learn more about the AFTLS program here. For more information about these performances, please contact Liz Fisher, lfisher@mail.utexas.edu, 512-471-4726.

The Dream, Austin Shakespeare at Zilker Park, April 29 - May 30

This is Shakespeare for a summery night in Zilker Park. The slope above the Hillside Theatre is wide and gentle, the perfect place to sprawl out on a blanket as the stars come out, the players play, the music sounds, and the action flits before you.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a favorite, in part because it is sweet and not particularly demanding. Shakespeare runs masques with the Duke's court, with the fairy court, with the clownish tradesmen and with the ever-so-earnest and therefore inevitably comic young lovers. Add a few portions of fairy juice, feature Puck for mischief, and transform the braggart clown into an ass, and what's not to like?

Ann Ciccolella enlisted Michael McKelvey to do up The Dream with 1960's style music, and that, too, offers an Austiny bit of odd retro flair, kind of like those 1960s rock shows that the Zach keeps putting on, year after year.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: The Dream, Austin Shakespeare in Zilker Park, April 28 - May 30

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Austin Shakespeare presents

free Shakespeare in Zilker Park

The Dream

a 1960s-style musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream

directed by Ann Ciccolella

April 29 - May 30

Experience Shakespeare's classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a 1960s rock ‘n roll edge as Austin Shakespeare presents the 25th incarnation of free Shakespeare in Zilker Park. The show, featuring a four piece rock band live on stage, will enliven and entertain the audience at Zilker Hillside Theatre for five weeks starting Thursday, April 29 at 8 p.m., running through the end of May. Sponsored by Jamail & Smith Construction

Michael McKelvey and Cesar Osorio have composed original music inspired by 1960s groups like The Animals and a pop singers like Petula Clark. Audiences will picnic, sit, sway, and toe-tap along to the harmony of six songs and two dance sequences. The production features Actors Equity members Gwendolyn Kelso, Joseph Banks as the lovers; and acclaimed Austin Actors Kara Bliss as the beautiful Queen Titania and Salvage Vanguard Artistic leader Jenny Larson, and new to town, young Brian Hensley, and William Moses as rocking King Oberon.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a magical story of young lovers who flee the conservative world to the forest, where they are enchanted by the Fairies. Simultaneously, a group of comic workmen, including a mailman, a plumber and a waitress on roller skates, are also beset by the Fairies in the forest. Audience members are encouraged to dress in 60s-era clothes to join in the spirit of the show.

[Images by Kimberley Mead]

Read more and view additional images at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tex-Arts Youth Production, April 10 - 11

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

April 10 and 11

at TexArts' Kam & James Morris Theater
2300 Lohman's Spur at 620, Lakeway
Tickets $15.00 online at www.texarts.org or call (512) 852-9079 x101

Under the direction of founder & former professional classical actor Todd Dellinger, the "Great Shakes" Theatre Troupe brings you one of Shakespeare's most beloved and enjoyed romantic comedies. On the heels of last year's hugely successful Much Ado About Nothing, the TexArts troupe breathes an exciting vitality and vigorous contemporary whimsy to this tried and true classic.

From forlorn lovers to fiery fairies of the wood, this classic is retold by TexArts' talented teens in a tangible and timely way. Gentles, come enjoy the fantastical realm of Titania, Oberon, Bottom, Puck and friends as they spin a dreamlike world of mischief and merriment.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Chaotic Theatre Company, February 26 - March 7

This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream was not chaotic at all, despite the name of presenting company. It was a straight-up, by-the-rules staging of Shakespeare's most popular piece.

That doesn't mean that it was tidy or even, though. Director Michael Floyd and the Chaotic Theatre band had some assorted neat ideas but little vision to tie them together.

Warm-up and intermission music was by the two guitars, drum and woman singer of a combo named 11 Cent Confidence, looking and playing like a standard Austin garage band and camping out solemnly in deep stage right as the play proceeded. They did an interlude or two of music for the faeries.

For some reason, unexplained, the stage was dressed with mounds of garbage left and right.

Some of the company were very good indeed, while others were barely in control of their speech and movement. Andrew Black was particularly accomplished at creating the hammy self-importance of Bottom as weaver, ass and actor. His minimalist framework donkey head dress, a magic piece of costuming, was credited to Cassie Padgett and/or Tara Bland.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .