Posts tagged as “Shakespeare in the Sangres”

While Shakespeare at times can be challenging to understand, this summer’s Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts (WCPA) production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is accessible and fun, worthy of a full family outing. As last Thursday’s midafternoon rain con­tinued into the one and only scheduled dress rehearsal, the cast, and crew responded with a poised and well-executed final rehearsal inside the Historic Jones Theatre rather than behind All Aboard Westcliffe Depot. The unpredictable weather also relocated the opening show on June 13 to the Historic Jones Theatre, yet the show went on without a hitch, and more times than once, the audi­ence responded with laughter. A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the tale of four Athenian lovers, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena, played by WCPA…