A Midsummer's Night Dream

Shakespeare on the Sound is committed to producing affordable, professional open-air productions of the plays of William Shakespeare and related authors in Fairfield County.  Working in collaboration with area civic, business and educational institutions, Shakespeare on the Sound presents an annual theatre festival, which brings great dramatic works to a broad audience, creating a forum for learning, appreciation and celebration.

Set in the Jane Austen time period, audiences will be transported into a magical forest where they will embark on a sentimental quest together with Shakespeare’s iconic characters. Together with the design team, director Kelly re-structures the world of Athens to reflect the Regency time period. Capturing the look of a formal drawing room leading into a rigid English garden, the set features a larger than life forest with giant flowers, acorns, and tree roots that will make the audience feel that they too have shrunk to the size of a fairy.

The characters are also channeling various species of birds that Ms. Kelly encountered during her world travels: Puck, a mischievous fairy who often shape shifts and mimics other voices based the Australian Lyre bird that can mirror sounds from car alarms to other animals. Oberon, King of the fairies, is based on a peacock, and Titania, Queen of the fairies, the African lilac breasted roller.