A Midsummer Night's Dream

by

William Shakespeare

as told by The Mechanicals

The Sheen Center For Thought and Culture

Let me play the lion too!” Our version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be taken over by one of its sub plots. In the traditional version of the play Shakespeare creates six working class people who are rehearsing a play within the play. Peter Quince (Anique Clements), a carpenter; Nick Bottom (Austin Pendleton), a weaver; Francis Flute (Andy Paterson), a bellows mender; Tom Snout (RJ Foster), a tinker; Snug (Carine Montbertrand), a joiner; Robin Starveling (Rachel Botchan) , a tailor; are all members of an amateur theatrical group who are working on a production of Pyramus and Thisbe – an ancient Greek tale found in the work of Shakespeare’s favorite poet – Ovid. In our production of this play, this group of very funny, sometimes misguided, but often brilliant actors will not only be producing this ancient story of ill-fated lovers, they will be telling… the whole story.