A High Spirited Spectacle Presented by St. Thomas | ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream'

Director Daniel Green embraced his sixth staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an inventive take, both saucy and sweet, worldly and enchanted, on William Shakespeare’s fantasy comedy. Dangerous and mysterious potions, fairy warfare, and crazy mixed-up love are the themes of this 400-year-old fusion of Greek mythology and cringe comedy. There was plenty of plot to manage and showcase during the October presentation in Cemo Auditorium at the Moran Fine Arts Center. The mischievous fairy Puck is a reckless figure of anarchy and compassion played with zest by Jordan Navarijo ’20. He and the king and queen of the fairies - Bishop Yokubaitis ’21 as Oberon and Caroline King (St. Agnes Academy ’20) as Titania - turn their enchanted wood into a magical place for mortals in love. But since this is a comedy of errors, they all fall for the wrong people. Chaos reigns. And hilarity ensues.