I am Addison Drumm, and I am a junior. I love taking pictures, acting, and hanging out with all of my favorite people. Why did you want to be involved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Is it what you thought it would be? I was so excited to have a chance to participate in a show … More Meet the Artist: Addison Drumm
My name is Owen Gudex! I am a Senior at Homestead who takes an interest in everything related to the arts! I will be attending Berklee College of Music, pursuing a degree in Film & Media Scoring. I love acting in the Homestead productions! A Midsummer Night’s Dream has always been interesting to me. When … More Meet the Artist: Owen Gudex
My name’s Sofia Anton and I’m a freshman. Some of my many interests include acting (what??), singing, martial arts, history, baking, music, watching movies, writing stories, dominating in trivia, making people laugh, and reading books that make me want to chuck them across the room. Out of joy, of course. … More Meet the Artist: Sofia Anton
This luxurious tale of fairies, dreams, and moonlight is Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. Deep in the magical forest a feuding King and Queen cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors, resulting in tempestuous love triangles, contagious fogs, and moonlight revels. Midsummer captures the exhilaration, foolishness, and delight of young love, as the chaos of magic and enchantment turns the world upside down. Join us for one of Shakespeare’s comedies with the aerial arts interspersed. … More Come see HHS’s Spring Play
Mark Twain’s hilarious (1909) debunking of the myth that William Shakespeare wrote the works of Shakespeare. Adapted and performed by Keir Cutler, Ph.D. at the 2003 Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Listing the handful of established facts of Shakespeare’s life, Twain ridicules the fantasy that an uneducated youth could have wandered into London and, with virtually none … More Mark Twain’s “Is Shakespeare Dead?” with Keir Cutler, Ph.D.
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare invented the idea of the teenager in love. Many of his characters – the thin and anguished Hamlet, the fat a jolly Falstaff, the sexy Cleopatra, the aged King Lear – have associations even for people who have never seen or read his plays, but none more so than Romeo … More “A Pair of Star-Crossed Lovers”
Summer Reading List! In Search of the First Folios Six years after Shakespeare’s death, John Heminge and Henry Condell – two of the actors from his company, The King’s Men – gathered together all of his dramatic works and published them in an impressive 908 page hardback book. Bound in calfskin and measuring fourteen inches … More The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen
In late April of 1964, England was celebrating the 400th birthday of William Shakespeare. At the same time, “Beatlemania” was in full swing. And for a brief moment, two of Britain’s cultural treasures intersected when the Beatles performed in a playful send-up of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The sketch was recorded in London on April 28, … More The Beatles Perform in a Spoof of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1964
I’ve broken the season book into three different ones as well. One book for each play! http://www.blurb.com/user/store/franzam A Midsummer Night’s Dream Brigadoon Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
It took longer then I thought, but finally I have put together a photo book for this years theatre season. This is a great way to remember all the plays and friends you made over the year. It includes photos from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Homecoming Parade, Brigadoon, Stage Crew, The Musical Comedy Murders … More Reality Not Required Photo Book
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