TO:        All Media Outlets

FROM:    Lewis & Clark High School Tiger Drama Department

DATE:    11/06/2006

RE:        A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatrical Production

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Lewis and Clark Tiger Drama Department is excited to announce the opening of William Shakespeare’s classic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  The show will open Thursday, November 16^th and close Saturday, November 18^th. Shows begin at 7:00 p.m. and admission is $5.00 at the door.  The shows will be performed in the Lewis and Clark Auditorium in the main building.

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, nymphs, fairies, royalty, and common folk bump up against one another in their frantic search for love. In this Lewis and Clark High School production, for perhaps the first time ever, Shakespeare's classic will be transported to the mythical setting of 1001 Arabian Nights.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps Shakespeare’s most adored, widely produced, and accessible play. The plot of Midsummer is a complex contraption that involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic affairs are complicated by their entrance into the play's fairyland desert where the King and Queen of the Fairies (Oberon and Titania) preside and the impish folk character of Puck plies his trade.   Another set of characters—Bottom the weaver and his bumptious band of "rude mechanicals"—stumble into the main doings when they go into the same enchanted desert to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, and that they perform later for the nuptials of Theseus and Hippolyta. Midsummer is packed with music, dance, folklore, love, fairies, myths, mischief, and of course, dreams.

We would appreciate your help in announcing our production.  Please post the included information in your community events section or bulletin.

Sincerely: 

Greg Pschirrer

LCHS Tiger Drama Director