Shakespeare and fairy dust are in the air as the Wahlert Drama department presents their fall show, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For many, the language of Shakespeare can be hard to understand. However, it is not impossible! 

Dealing with universal themes such as love and the problems it brings, the play brings together three separate plots that eventually all come to a head by the climax of the show. With two couples who become lost in a magical forest, the world of the King and Queen of fairies, and a haphazard group of dim- witted craftsmen attempting to rehearse a production of “Pyramus and Thisbe” for the Duke of Athens and his soon- to- be bride, a Midsummer Night’s Dream has a variety of situations that will capture every audience member’s’ attention.

The show begins with Hermia, who is in love with a man named Lysander. Her father, however, wants her to be wedded to a man named Demetrius. In order to escape the arranged marriage Hermia’s father has threatened them with, she and Lysander flee to the woods with the goal of eloping.

Demetrius hears of this and follows them, only to be pursued by Helena, a friend of Hermia’s, who is brought almost to the point of insanity with her love of Demetrius. The couples become entangled in love’s messy strings when mischievous Puck, the right hand man to the fairy king Oberon, plays Cupid. Meanwhile, a gang of quite terrible actors rehearses a poorly written play in the same woods where the lovers fled, and soon find their lives transformed by the Queen of Fairies, Titania.

Funny, magical, and challenging, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a show you don’t want to miss!