A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

or

The Night They Missed the Forest for the
Trees

By Nancy Linehan Charles

 Adapted from Shakespeare

Cast: Cast: 4m., 6w. (plus 9 either gender, extras as desired.) We're
in study hall where just about everyone is doing everything except
studying for tomorrow's test on A Midsummer Night's Dream. That is,
until Jessie gets an idea. In this rollicking adaptation of
Shakespeare's play (wherein is examined the adolescent urges of just
about everybody), teenagers, fairies, workers and royalty collide in a
forest on a summer night and are bedazzled by a prankster. The fairy
queen falls in love with an ass, the teens fall in and out (and in)
love with each other, six well-meaning goofs stumble into their 15
minutes of fame, fairies weave magic to bring it all to a happy end as
only Shakespeare can conjure the tapestry, and three streetwise
storytellers pull the audience at breakneck speed toward the
moon-drenched conclusion. Bare stage with props. Approximate running
time: 60 minutes