{"id":148485,"date":"2020-02-22T23:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T06:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=148485"},"modified":"2020-02-22T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T06:34:32","slug":"stage-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-the-arvada-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/stage-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-the-arvada-center.html","title":{"rendered":"Stage Review: &#8220;A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream&#8221; at the Arvada Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually had a chance to perform in\u00a0<em>Midsummer<\/em> in college, so I have a real fondness for the show. It has some intrinsic structural problems, but it&#8217;s always magical.\u00a0 This was a fine rendition, and a great way to spend the evening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148488\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-148488\" title=\"Midsummer Arvada Puck\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck-650x434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Barbour as Puck &#8211; Photo by Amanda Tipton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent cast, as always. The Arvada repertory company is incredibly strong, and Geoffrey Kent (as Bottom, &amp;c.) and\u00a0Annie Barbour (as Puck, &amp;c.) did stand-out jobs amongst some very good performances.<\/li>\n<li>As a company of eight, most of the actors were doubled (sometimes more). AMND is well set up for that &#8212; the lovers \/ court, the mechanicals, and the fairies have their stories run separately enough to allow some quick costume shifts to keep things together with the limited cast. This was aided by the conceit of the setting &#8212; a traveling troupe entertaining people in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic world.<\/li>\n<li>The Arvada black box is set up fully in the round this season, but the cast and action did marvelously with it.<\/li>\n<li>The show stayed pretty faithful to the Shakespeare, with the exception of some musical sets and shenanigans by the mechanicals, and (which worked delightfully) a gender-bend to have Titania and Puck being the conspirators that set Oberon on a romantic collision course with Bottom-as-ass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was the second night of the show, which runs through 16 May. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/86957396@N00\/albums\/72157713174865416\">The Production&#8217;s Flickr Album<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arvadacenter.org\/a-midsummer-nights-dream\">The Arvada Center page for the show<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A video with the director (below):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GK78N3iMmQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of the play; this production was one of the best I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[1591,2020],"class_list":["post-148485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-stage","tag-shakespeare","tag-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Midsummer-Arvada-Puck.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136272,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/another-pleasant-evening-at-the-theater.html","url_meta":{"origin":148485,"position":0},"title":"Another pleasant evening at the theater","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 12:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... up at the Arvada Center for their production of Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. 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