Piedmont Players Theatre to Present A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM This Month
By: BWW News Desk Feb. 07, 2017
A Midsummer Night's Dream is Piedmont Players Theatre's 8th grade school show. In addition to the six public performances, all county 8th grade classes will be bused in to see a live performance of the show. PPT will also be inviting all high school English classes to attend one of the six school shows performed.
Any students or educators who are interested in attending should call 704-633-5471 for details. School show dates are February 13-16, 2017.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" William Shakespeare's most popular comedy, opens at the Norvell Theater next Friday! Director Reid Leonard has designed a truly unique set that will make the Norvell Theater almost unrecognizable. At the base of Shakespeare's Globe Theater stage in England, there was an area called the pit, where audience members called the "groundlings," would stand on the floor to watch the performance. For Piedmont Players Theatre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the audience will experience what it would have been like to see a play at the Globe in Shakespeare's day.
The play deals with the universal theme of love and its complications: featuring 3 interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta. When Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeus's wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius, she is advised by Duke Theseus that the law requires a daughter to marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity as a nun. Hermia and her real love- Lysander therefore decide to elope and run away into the forest.
As it turns out, Hermia's best friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius so she decides to tell him of the plan in hopes that it will make Demetrius like her more. The moment Demetrius learns of the elopement plan, he chases the couple into the forest with Helena chasing him in turn.
Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the same forest, fighting over which of them has the right to one of Titania's servants. When the queen refuses to relinquish the boy, Oberon recruits the mischievous fairy, Puck to help him by applying a magical juice from a flower, which makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing they see when they wake up.
Things get crazy when Oberon encounters the 4 Athenian lovers and tells Puck to use the magic to aid their love lives as well. When Puck puts the magic potion on the wrong guy, forcing him to fall in love with the wrong girl, the couples are enveloped in a fog of Puck's errors and a maze of romantic entanglements.
Meanwhile, in the very same forest, a group of amateur actors are rehearsing a play they hope to perform at the Duke's wedding. As if things are crazy enough, Puck decides to play a joke on an actor named, Bottom, turning his head into the head of a donkey. The prank backfires when the queen wakes up, sees Bottom and immediately falls in love with an actor with the head of a donkey.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is widely performed around the world, and no wonder - it's about the world's most popular pastime, falling in love. But as Puck will learn, falling in love can make fools of us all. Love is crazy, love is mad. Will love win out in the end?
Piedmont Players Youth Theatre production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opens at the Norvell Theater February 17th. Producing Partners: Edward & Susan Norvell. Public Show Dates: Feb 17-18 & 24-25 at 7:30pm. Tickets go on sale Feb. 13. Adults $12, Students/Seniors $10. For tickets call 704-633-5471 or purchase online at PiedmontPlayers.com.
MEET THE CAST:
CHARACTER | STUDENT ACTOR | SCHOOL
Theseus Alex Blumenthal Knox Middle
Hippolyta Emma Patterson Davie County Early College
Egeus Allison Tesh Carson High
Philostrate Amber Bouknight West Rowan High
Hermia Mariah Hill Homeschool
Lysander JosepH Clark Graystone Day School
Helena Chloe Corley Graystone Day School
Demetrius Sirravada Norng Central Davidson High
Oberon Garrett Jennings North Rowan High
TiTania Laura Bullock Salisbury High
Puck Ben Zino West Rowan High
Titania's Fairy Bailey Zino Salisbury Academy
Peaseblossom Meredith Swaim West Rowan High
Cobweb Sara Beth Richard Carson High
Moth/Attendant Ardyn Eggar Salisbury Academy
Mustardseed Courtney Williams Salisbury Academy
Fairy/Attendant Reagan Carpenter Knox Middle
Fairy/Attendant Lila Rosser North Rowan Middle
Fairy/Attendant Grace Eppehimer Overton Elementary
Fairy/Attendant Ardyn Eggar Salisbury Academy
Bottom Elijah Carpenter Carson High
Peter Quince Ali Khatib North Rowan Middle
Francis Flute Cooper Fleeman Sacred Heart
Tom Snout Hayes Hartpence Salisbury Academy
Snug Khalil Chaires Hanford Dole Elementary
Robin Starveling Hannah Wells Davie County High School
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