Cast
Crew
A Midsummer Night's dream was the third play I directed at Chaparral, but the first without Spicola there to help with costumes, makeup, and all the other production work she did. You can't see it any of the photos, but Mr. Allende, aka "Orchman" wrote an original score to play underneath the show in places. It was really cool, but even with microphones we had some balance issues. Yay Space boots. I had decided to set the play in the future for some bizarre reason, but the rude mechanics seemed stuck in the Shire. Still it was a nice start to a new era. It was adjudicated to go to the State festival but was not selected...Thank God. Can you imagine the nightmare of trying to travel with this monster? During the teaser, we did a transition from the stark city to the forest, with a front of curtain scene in between. it was so seemless the audience of high school students literally gasped when the forest was revealed. I think they applauded too, but I am not 100% on that. After the teaser some of the students asked how we got all that on stage in such a quick time. Ah magical illusions...gotta love it.
We had the fairies go through the audience and throw glitter at the audience. It was very annoying but fun and mischievous.
In the closeups you can see it's just painted carpet not grass, but from the audience it was very effective and beautiful.
Matt Merritt guest starred in all three productions this theater season.
This pictures comes closest to capturing how the forrest looked.
I think we still have some of these stock platforms.
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