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Edison Theater Program Brings Shakespeare to Stage

The Edison Community College Stagelight Players will be bringing William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to campus for a two-weekend run beginning Friday, April 20th, at 7:30 p.m.

The play, one of Shakespeare’s most popular, portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.

Edison faculty member Matthew Beisner will be directing the play, which will feature some newly acquired set designs that will add an extra dimension to Shakespeare’s classic tale.

“We are fortunate to have a professional company from Dayton, The Light Fantastic, coming to light our newly acquired scrim,” said Beisner. “With this new technology, this show will look much different and a lot better than any show you’ve seen here.”

In the past, the Stagelight Players have brought Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” and “The Tempest” to life in the Edison Theater. Beisner had many reasons for again reaching into the Bard’s catalog for this spring’s show.

“It’s simply a classic! There’s a reason why this play is one of Shakespeare’s most performed plays. It has a wonderful, yet simple plot with lots of memorable characters,” said Beisner. “It includes the theme of the darker side of love. It interweaves between dysfunctional love, passionate love and aristocratic love. It also includes one of the most famous ‘play within a play’ scenes ever written, which, in turn, satirizes Shakespeare’s own Romeo and Juliet.”

The costumes by Anne Vaccaro will be a rich mixture inspired from Greek mythology to Renaissance romance to 1940’s sophistication.

Tickets for the show are $7 for adults, $5 for students and $3 for seniors. Children under 12 are free. Shows will run Friday, April 20th and Saturday, April 21st at 7:30 p.m. Additional shows will be Friday, April 27th, Saturday, the 28th and Sunday the 29th, all at 7:30 p.m.

Beisner has been impressed with the direction and progress that Edison’s theater program has made over the years.

“Things are definitely headed in the right direction. There are lots of wonderful people at Edison who want to see the theatre program succeed, from teachers to the administrative staff,” he said. “I’ve made it a personal goal to bring such a high level of quality to our productions, that when people who think of great theatre, they think of Edison.”


 
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