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Stone Soup Shakespeare extends the Summer with
A Midsummer Night's Dream touring "your backyard" Sep 7-Oct 8





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dates, and locations now live
ABOUT SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY
In Athens a wedding (between Duke Theseus and Hippolyta) is about to occur and a group of craftsmen (Bottom, Flute, Snout, Snug and Quince) want to be the evening’s entertainment. They plot and plan and rehearse a play in the woods. Meanwhile teens Hermia and Lysander are super in love, only Hermia’s Dad, Egeus, is not into it. He wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, who has agreed (even though he used to have a thing with Hermia’s BFF, Helena). Hermia and Lysander decide to run away through the woods. Helena (who is still way into Demetrius), tells Demetrius. He follows Hermia and Lysander…Helena follows him. Little do they all know that in the woods the Fairy King (Oberon) and Queen (Titania) are having a spat. Oberon decides to trick Titania into falling in love with some rando, and while plotting with Puck (kinda the fairy land’s court jester) to do so, he spies the teens. He tells Puck to use this love herb to get Demetrius to fall back in love with Helena…only Puck puts the herb on Lysander’s eyes. Lysander see Helena and starts wooing her. Puck tries to fix it and this time gets Demetrius’ eyes; now both guys are into Helena and Hermia is really not ok with this…neither is Helena tbh. Oh, but Oberon’s plan with Titania; Puck turns Bottom (one of the town actors) into a donkey. Titania totally falls for him. When Oberon has finally had enough of all this mischief, he tells Puck to undo all the spells. When Bottom comes too he’s not sure if what happened happened…actually no one is. But hey, everyone’s happy in the end because Bottom and friends get to put on a play, and it is fire!


ABOUT OUR PLAY
Ours is a basically the same, but different. We use Shakespeare's words, but we believe that Shakespeare's words are gorgeous but not sacred, and a lot has changed in the world since Elizabethan England. As such we approached rehearsing this play as if Shakespeare was in the room with us, as a NEW writer. In our Midsummer we focus on Bottom's story, more over his DREAM. What if all the overlapping stories of lovers and fairies and donkey transformations (yep, you read that right) is really just a dream of his? We purposefully have only FIVE actors playing all of the parts - a little “Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz” as everyone becomes someone else in the many layers of Bottom’s Dream.





​the company

Director - Christina Casano

Creatives - Carina Lastimosa

Ensemble - Sara BenBella, Sofia Carvajal, Tess Galbiati,  Olivia Jackson, and Julia Stemper

Understudies - Sarah Hensley, Azucena Reyes

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  • About
    • Our History
    • The Company
    • Mindfulness and Awareness
  • TOUR
    • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Tour Dates
    • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Cast and Creatives
    • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM About
    • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Survey
    • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM FAME Center Collaboration
    • Past Tours >
      • Tours >
        • Tour 2021: HAMLET Tour Dates >
          • Tour 2021: HAMLET Cast and Creatives
          • Tour 2021: HAMLET RSVP
        • Tour 2019: FAME Tour-Twelfth Night >
          • Tour 2019: FAME Tour Schedule
          • Tour 2019: Ensemble
          • Tour 2019: FAME Tour a Note of Inclusion
        • Tour 2018: The Taming of the Shrew >
          • Tour 2018: Tour Schedule
          • Tour 2018: Ensemble
        • Tour 2017: Julius Caesar home
        • Tour 2016: The Comedy of Errors >
          • Tour 2016: The Comedy Cast
        • Tour 2015: Much Ado About Nothing >
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a director
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a cast
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About SHAKE38
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About Other Fun
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a GREEN SHOW
        • As You Like It >
          • As You Like It Actors
          • As You Like It Auxiliary Events
        • The Tempest >
          • The Tempest Who's Who
          • The Tempest Talks
        • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Tour 2012
        • Romeo and Juliet: Tour 2011 >
          • Romeo and Juliet Tour
          • Romeo and Juliet cast
  • EDUCATION
  • Soup
    • The Tale of Stone Soup
    • Recipe Archive
  • DONATE
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