Shakespeare in the Park with the Augusta Downtown Alliance
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Augusta 16, 17 in Waterfront Park in Augusta

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry.

by Ron Bernas

At Hallowell City Hall
Show dates June 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23

“A delightful surprise…an evening of fun just on the proper side of slapstick.” – Lansing State Journal

Synopsis from stageplays.com

It’s New Year’s Eve at the Perry mansion, and Julia and Matthew Perry seem to have it all.

But Matthew wants something more – to be rid of his wife Julia so he can have some real fun!

He resolves to murder Julia by the new year’s end, and tells her so

She vows to stay alive, and tells him so

And so the game begins – an hilarious year-long match of wits and the witless

But while Julia cleverly dodges Matthew’s devious murder attempts, the Perry friends and staff are dying off mysteriously – it seems Matthew is successful in murdering everyone but Julia!

As the bodies are falling, dim-witted daughter Bunny contemplates calling off her wedding to unwitting Donald since all the intended gift-bearing guests are dying

Enter Detective Plotnik – a Sam Spade reincarnation who suspects everyone, but hasn’t a clue

By Werner Trieschmann.

Synopsis from dramaticpublishing.com

Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good. A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator?) guides the audience through the whole sorry process. We go from the audition—where the director is more worried about roast beef than paying attention to the warm-up exercise, and the neurotic cast pretends to be bacon—to rehearsals—where a passive-aggressive stage manager gives everyone grief. There’s also a special meeting of the Small Part Support Group and a production of Romeo and Juliet set in a Starbucks with costumes of potato sacks and bowler hats. This bad play within a play won’t win any awards, but All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play will keep audiences in stitches.