Paladin

Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: City Style

Don Marcy and Tony Pearson have built a set most interesting for the next theatrical production at LBCC, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" directed by Anthony Carreiro and written by William Shakespeare.

The show premieres today, Thursday, April 10 at 8 p.m in the LAC the Auditorium.

The set for "Midsummer" is a larger set than the last production, but more "simple," said Marcy, a former LBCC student who attended in 1967 as an actor.

The play takes place in two locations, the King's Palace and a forest. To provide the scenery, the set is designed to rotate on circular platforms and show hidden forest motifs to provide the alternate location.

Shakespeare's original production in the 1590s portrays the adventures of Athenian lovers and Carreiro has put a 1960s' twist with Beatles songs accompanying the production with hippie-influenced attire and behavior.

"Although this certainly was not one of Shakespeare's lofty dramas," Carreiro wrote in his director's notes, "It is a very funny play."

Some new faces to the LBCC theater department will be making their debut with the play. Tara Quint, Hippolyta and Josh Vega, Egeus are second-semester theater majors.

The production has been entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival where the participants in the play are eligible for scholarships, grants, internships and awards for actors, playwrights, designers and stage managers.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" will run for two weeks, Thursday, April 10-20. Showtimes are 8 p.m. on Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $7 for students, employees and senior citizens.

Tickets may be purchased at the ASB Bank in the college Bookstore or at the LAC?Auditorium box office.

Page 1 of 1

Article Tools