Read A Midsummer Night's Dream - In Person

Welcome, dreamers and skeptics alike, to a world where moonlight meddles in mortal matters, and the green woods bewilder and bewitch lovers’ hearts.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare’s wink at the madness of love, so keep your eyes open and your expectations loose. Identities are fluid. Tradesmen moonlight as fairies. Nobles moonlight as lovers. Walls talk. Lovers mistake. Gentle lions roar. And even the queen of the fairies falls head over heels for a man with the head of a donkey. Reason, that poor, stiff creature, doesn’t stand a chance.

What’s real? What’s a dream? Shakespeare doesn’t say. He simply invites us to lose ourselves in those green woods, where the laws of Athens don’t apply, and where the barriers—between love and duty, actor and character, audience and play—crumble like fairy dust at dawn.

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Registration for this reading is open for 16 parts. There will be brief introductions before we read, a break halfway through, and a discussion of the play afterward, for those who wish to take part.

SPECIAL NOTE: In keeping with this play’s themes of identity, confusion and unexpected twists, this is a ‘Grab Bag’ reading (meaning that we will find out our parts randomly at the start of the event).

Our strongly recommended text is from the Folger website.
All levels of reading are welcome! This is a very inclusive and relaxed group, and we are happy to have you along!