Coronado Playhouse Presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Opens 9/2

A Midsummer Night's Dream is this year's 15th Annual FREE Shakespeare at the Coronado Playhouse. The show opens September 2 and runs through September 25, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM. Free tickets are available through The Playhouse website www.coronadoplayhouse.com. Large groups should email or call the box offIce To arrange for groups larger than eight.

Veteran director Keith A. Anderson directs and Mary Anderson produces this audience favorite. Award winning designers include: Ashley Foughty (sound), Dale Goodman (lights), RoseMary King & Jane Russell, (set), Mary Anderson & Jane Russell (costumes), Sonja Cash (make-up). Ashley Foughty and Diana Valero-Olivier provide musical direction and choreography. This year's pre-show is a 20-minute musical interlude so audience will want to arrive at 7:30 when the doors open.

The annual FREE Shakespeare is partially funded through grants from the City of Coronado and San Diego County Board of Supervisors. All are encouraged to donate at the door to help defray expenses that are not covered by grants.

Theseus, Duke of Athens, (David O'Neal) prepares to wed Hippolyta (Bailey O'Neill), Queen of the Amazons. Egeus (Stephen McLaughlin, Sr.), an Athenian nobleman, wants his daughter Hermia (Amanda Osborn) to marry Demetrius (Theordore Martland), but Hermia is in love with Lysander (Nathan Boyer) and refuses to comply and make plans to elope, telling only Helena (Renee Ulloa-McDonald) of their pans. Helena, who loves Demetrius, seeks his approval by telling him of the elopement plan.

Also in the woods are two other groups: magical creatures and rustics. Oberon (Terence J. Burke), the fairy king, Titania (Danielle Gallaher), his fairy queen, Puck (Ashley Foughty), his messenger, and fairy attendants (Sonya Cash, Angela Ahern, Bella Rivera, Hannah Mussey, Cindy Moorhouse Fischer, Patty Fay). As Oberon puts magic spells on Titania they affect a group of Rustics, Athenian tradesmen (Martin While, Marty Greenberg, Joseph Mancini, Ryan Payne, Frank Godinez, Mike Edmond) rehearsing a play that they hope to perform for the duke.

When Titania wakes, the first creature she sees she will love. It happens to be Bottom, the most boisterous of the Athenian craftsmen, whose head Puck has mockingly transformed into that of an ass. Meanwhile, Puck spreads the love potion on both Lysander and Demetrius so that they love Helena, not Hermia. Puck and Oberon fix all so that Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Helena, and all is well. 

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