| April 16, 2010 7:30 pm | to | April 17, 2010 7:30 pm |
Evangel University theatre students will be performing Shakespeare’s classic magical tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, April 8-10 and 16-17 at 7:30 p.m., in the Barnett Fine Arts Theatre. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, the 17th.
Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for children under 12 and groups of 8 or more. To view available seating, visit www.evangel.edu/TicketSales.
Tickets can be purchased online and at the box office during performance weeks. The box office is open Monday through Wednesday 4-6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday 4-7:30 p.m., and for the Saturday matinee 1-2 p.m. Box office phone 417-865-2815 ext. 7134.
The play is directed by David Smith, associate professor of theatre arts.
For additional information, contact Elaine Tate 417- 865-2815 ext. 8641.
Synopsis
One of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream will delight audiences with the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest.
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, and is set simultaneously outside the city of Athens in a forest surrounded by a realm of fairies or immortals.
When the play begins, quarrels among the mortals in Athens’ court and between the forest’s Fairy King Oberon and Queen Titania are causing havoc. The young lovers flee the Court in order to seek happiness together and find their love strangely twisted by Puck’s fairy mischief and tricks. Only Oberon can set things straight.
Other visitors to the enchanted forest include Bottom (the weaver) and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince, and Flute (the amateur actors who want to rehearse their terrible but hilarious version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe).
Cast
Oberon: Nathan Griepp, ’06 Evangel graduate and admissions counselor
Titania: Anesa Beilfuss, junior theatre major from Branch, Mich.
Puck: Salvatore Marchione, senior theatre major from Union, N.J.
Theseus: Denzel Billy, freshman theatre major from Houston, Texas.
Hippolyta: Erin Jacobs, senior music and theatre/speech education double major from Charlotte, Mich.
Egeus: Brad Mapson, sophomore social studies major from Nixa, Mo.
Hermia: Amber Gathright, senior theatre music major from Reeds Spring, Mo.
Lysander: Ben Gathright, freshman history and social studies education double major from Forney, Texas
Demetrius: Nick Longo, sophomore criminal justice major from Alexandria, Va.
Helena: Bethany Blevins, junior theatre/speech education major from Daingerfield, Texas
Bottom: Jordan Thomas, senior theatre arts major from Ozark, Mo.
Quince: Zachary Kidder, junior film major from Plymouth, Wis.
Flute: Allison Drewitz, freshman intercultural studies and English double major from Louisville, Ky.
Starveling: Sarah Drach, junior theatre/music major from Manitowoc, Wis.
Snout: Britney Kelcher, sophomore music education major from St. Peters, Mo.
Snug: Katie Johnson, sophomore music performance major from St. Charles, Mo.
Philostrate: Leah Zielbauer, sophomore theatre music major from Golden, Colo.
Peasblossom: Gina Moran, freshman theatre/speech education major from Long Island, N.Y.
Cobweb: Ruthy Lowenberg, junior digital arts major from Nairobi, Kenya.
Moth: Lexy Brown, junior theatre/speech major from Lee’s Summit, Mo.
Mustardseed: Jeanette Schaaf, senior digital arts major from Orlando, Fla.
Male Fairy 1: Josiah Austin, sophomore music education major from Hazel, S.D.
Male Fairy 2: Jacob Brechlin, freshman theatre/music major from Newburg, Mo.
Male Fairy 3: Doug Reed, freshman music education major from Keokuk, Iowa.
