The Oddfellows Playhouse Teen Repertory Company is staging Shakespeare’s classic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream November 11 - 20 in Middletown.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the greatest comedies ever written, featuring a royal wedding, misguided
lovers, mischievous fairies, and a clumsy group of manual laborers attempting to stage a play. The intersecting
humors of love, magic, attachment, loyalty and free will make this a family friendly comedy that evokes as much
laughter today as it did over 400 years ago. The 17 members of the Teen Repertory Company, all between the ages
of 14 and 20, bring this spectacle to life with enthusiasm, acrobaticism and broad physicality.
The play is directed by ARTFARM Artistic Director Marcella Trowbridge, who has performed and directed many
Shakespeare plays at Oddfellows, ARTFARM and around the country. Set Designer is Tony Palmieri; Lighting
Designer is Jon-Paul LaRocco; Costumer Designer is Christian Milik; Sound Designer is Joseph Getter; Properties
Designer is Caleb Warner. Circus and Contortion Choreography is by Allison McDermott and Naja Muller.
Tickets for A Midsummer Night’s Dream are are $15 for adults and $8 for students. “Big Heart” tickets for $25 are
available for anyone wanting to support Oddfellows’ work with young people, the arts and social justice. Tickets
may be purchased at www.oddfellows.org, or by calling (860) 347-6143. Due to COVID restrictions, there will only
be 50 seats sold for each performance, so pre-purchase is strongly recommended to avoid disappointment. Masking
is requested of all audience members and staff, and non-vaccinated attendees are asked to get a negative test result
within 3 days of the performance which you are attending (honor system).
Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater, founded in 1975, is located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown. The
Playhouse offers classes, performance opportunities and events for young people ages 3 - 20, with an ongoing
commitment to Equity and Accessibility. Winter session of classes and productions starts January 10, and will
include a Teen Rep New Plays Festival, a Junior Repertory Company production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, an original Circus-Theater piece by Circophony Teen Circus, and much, much more.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is made possible thanks to support from the Middletown Commission on the Arts;
Connecticut Office of the Arts/DECD; The Fund for Greater Hartford; City of Middletown; American Savings
Foundation; State of Connecticut Judicial Branch (Youth Violence Prevention); Middletown Youth Services Bureau;
Community Foundation of Middlesex County; Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation; Thomas J. Atkins
Memorial Trust Fund; Middlesex United Way; New England Foundation for the Arts/New England Arts Resilience
Fund; CHEFA Cultural Relief Grant; George & Grace Long Foundation; and many generous individual donors.
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