Shakespeare is coming to the Sinclair theatre. A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run for the next couple of weeks at the Blair Hall Theatre.
The comedic play portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta. It includes the adventures of four young lovers and a group of fairies that they come across in the forest.
According to Chelsey Hall, who plays the character of the fairy Puck, his mischievousness brings some of the comedy into the play.
“Puck is just kind of the one that half listens and he ends up screwing with the entirety of the play. Kind of causes all the mayhem,” Hall said.
“He really doesn’t care that he causes the mayhem so Oberon [King of the fairies] decides to give him a strong talking to for it.”
According to Hall, students and faculty should come and watch this play because of it comedic storytelling.
“It’s hilarious. There’s so many funny moments, like in rehearsal sometimes we can’t even get through the scene because we’re all laughing too hard. Just very funny, very ridiculous, there’s no need to take in a serious, like a Romeo and Juliet manner. It’s very humorous and fit for all audiences,” she said.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream will begin on February 10 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and they will run six total showings until February 18. It will take place in Blair Hall Theatre which is located in Building 2. They will have two American Sign Language performances.
In March the theater department will put on a one night play of “A Song for Coretta,” and they will premiere “The Toxic Avenger” in April, which will finish them out for the rest of the Spring semester.
Laina Yost
Managing Editor