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Manchester College players add twist to
spring play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Short Version
Would William Shakespeare have loved Miami Vice? Manchester
College audiences of this year’s Alpha Psi Omega play, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, the short version, might assume so. Directors
Jake Ramirez, a senior from Everett, Pa., and Will Patch, a sophomore
from Otterbein, Ind., have moved Shakespeare’s famous play to Miami,
Florida during the 1980s.
Manchester College will present the play at 7 p.m. on three nights,
March 17-19 in Wampler Auditorium on campus. Tickets are $1 or one
canned good for the local food pantry. The
play is a production of Alpha Psi Omega drama honorary society.
The main plot is a complex farce that involves two sets of couples
whose romantic intrigues are confused and complicated still further by
entering the forest where Oberon, King of the Fairies, and his Queen,
Titania, rule. The themes illustrated in the play are that love triumphs
in the end, and the pleasure of dreaming the impossible dream.
The Cast
Oberon……………………………………………………...Aaron Hostetler
Flute……………………………………………..………….Amanda Patch
Bottom……………………………………………….……..Andrew Leavens
Demetrius…………………………………………………...Eli Hersberger
Petra
Quince………………………………………………...Becky Hollenberg
Puck………………………………………………………….Nicci (Judith) Small
Hippolyta……………………………………………………Sarah
Besser
Helena…………………………………………………...…..Meghan Siroky
Hermia……………………………………………………….Rachel
McFadden
Lysandra……………………………………………………..Alicia
Smith
Theseus……………………………………………………....Ben
Martin
Snug………………………………………………………….Steve Grubb
Egeus…………………………………………………….…..Mark
Christensen
Snout/Wall…………………………………………………...Jessi Bair
Starveling/Moon……………………………………………..Heidi Gonyea
Peasblossom/.Fairy……………………………………….….Megan
Leese
Titania……………………………………………………..…Fiona
Mills-Groninger
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