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The Taft Drama Association started doing performances in 1900, often casting up to four plays a year. For over 100 years, Taft cast and produced numerous plays, musicals, and one-acts without producing a single Shakespearean title. But in 2014, as the Arts Department was retooling its production schedule, they took a leap of faith and put on Twelfth Night, or What You Will during the winter season. Since then, they have also produced Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and The Tempest all in the Black Box theater space. Offering a Shakespearean play every other year has given students the opportunity to tackle the works of one of the greatest writers of all times, and offers an entertaining show to the Taft Community. And 122 years later, Taft performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Black Box in February. —Beth Nolan Lovallo ’93 The Leslie D. Manning Archives 68
Taft Bulletin / WINTER 2022
1. Twelfth Night, or What You Will, February 2014 2. Romeo and Juliet, February 2016 3. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, February 2018
4. The Tempest, February 2020 5. The poster from the February 2022 performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. DAVID KIEVIT
