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"Midsummer" update is magical |
A new look and sound has been brought to Shakespeare's classic comedy of magic, lovers, fairies, and fools . . . featuring an original score steeped in Big Easy jazz, blues, and zydeco, counterscored with the tribal drums and chants of Africa and Native America. Set in and around post-Katrina New Orleans, the daughter of an old-blood Garden District family loves a young musician. But her mother has other plans to marry her off to a stuffy young businessman. The girl and her beloved, in order to escape the centuries-old laws of the City, plan to elope . . . only to be pursued by her other suitor, who himself is being chased by his own thwarted love! When the lovers lose their way in the bayous late that night, they suddenly find themselves surrounded by the mystic world of the spirits: native sprites and voudoun loas as wild and ancient as the roots of the Big Easy, ruled by two proud deities whose heated argument over one forsaken child causes the very hurricanes and disasters that plague the city. Add to the mixture a crew of endearing street performers attempting to regain their lives and livelihoods, including one good ol' boy who really does make a jackass of himself. Stir in a self-important Southern politician and a mischeivous will-o'-the-wisp bearing a love elixir . . . and what you get is a knock-down, dragged-out fight-in-the-mud tale of loss and love!
This adapatation
was developed while serving as a Guest Artist for the Huntingdon College
Theatre Department. This was the final production of The Dungeon Players
before the department was dismantled, following the departure of head
professor and director Fiona Macleod. |
