William Shakespeare, "The Droeshout Engraving"
Actors from the London Stage perform Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Oct. 13, 15 and 16 at UTSA
(Oct. 11, 2004)--The UTSA Department of English, Classics and Philosophy presents Actors from the London Stage performing William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 13, 15 and 16 in the Arts Building Recital Hall on the 1604 Campus.
Reserved tickets are $15, $7 for students with I.D., and are available at the UTSA University Center ticket office on the 1604 Campus and at the door.
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RSS FeedsThe five actors in the troupe, Caroline Devlin, Christopher Staines, Nicholas Tigg, Jan Shepherd and Guy Burgess, play multiple roles in the production utilizing an uncut script, simple costumes and minimal scenery with an emphasis on language. The touring company visits selected American universities each year to perform and conduct workshops. This production is the company's 19th visit to UTSA.
Actors from the London Stage, housed at the University of Notre Dame, is an educational and theatrical program that brings a troupe of five classically trained actors from major English theaters to college campuses for week-long residencies. Begun in 1975 by Professor Homer Swander of the University of California, Santa Barbara and British actor Patrick Stewart, AFTLS's unique program of performance and education has visited 150 campuses.
Troupe members will present two other special performances in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04), 1604 Campus. The special performances are free and open to the public. Caroline Devlin will perform "The Spirit of Scotland in Story and Song" from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12. The presentation will feature traditional Celtic poetry and songs. Nicholas Tigg will present a reading, "The Margaret Donald File," from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 14. Tigg will read from eight years of the real-life and hilarious correspondence that began in 1968 between an eccentric British woman who hadn't paid taxes in 60 years and a representative of Her Majesty's Tax Office.
The Actors from the London Stage residency is supported by UTSA Friends of Shakespeare and a grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
For more information, call Mark Allen, Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, at 210-458-5368.
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About the play
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," is believed to have been performed first between 1594 and 1596, and may have been written for a royal wedding.
The play is about four young lovers who flee the city of Athens to find freedom and happiness in the woods. They discover a place of enchantment inhabited by fairies, whose mischief confuses them. A group of aspiring actors stumbles onto the scene to rehearse a play, but the roguish fairy Puck intercepts them and transforms their friend Bottom into a donkey.
As Bottom and the lovers struggle to understand their predicaments, the king of the fairies attempts to repair the damage done by Puck. By dawn, the lovers are reunited and Bottom?s human form is restored.