Midsummer Night's Dream

CAST & CREW DASHBOARD

Performance Dates:

July 14th

6pm call 8pm show

Easton Block Party

July 15th

6pm call 8pm show

Old Mill St. Mikes

July 16th

10am call 11:30 show

Wildset St. Mikes

6pm call 8pm show

Oxford Park

Vision

Board

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Unit 1 Film for practice, including Puck, Peaseblossom & Cobweb Voice over.

Unit 25 Film for practice, including Puck, Peaseblossom & Oberon Voice over.

Dispatch from snug:

SCHEDULING

We are almost one month out from our performances! Can you believe it?

This week:

Monday, 6/5 @6PM French Scenes - Units 1-14

Wednesday, 6/7 @6PM French Scenes - Units 15-22

Friday, 6/9 @5:30PM French Scenes - Units 23-26

Next week:

Monday, 6/12 @6PM French Scenes - Units 8, 11, 16-21

Wednesday 6/14 @5PM Production Meeting

Wednesday 6/14 @6PM FULL RUN THROUGH, Full cast call

The REST of the schedule is READY!! There are a couple times subject to change, and you'll notice that there are a couple Fridays that are TBD based on what we need to work on. We also have some additional filmed bits that need to be done, so there is potential to do that then.

In other news

• If you plan to play an instrument, start to bring it to rehearsals
  
• Mechanicals - learning the following songs... Rocky Raccoon, Constant Sorrow there will probably be more things added to this list, but definitely learn these ones!
  
• If you have specific prop needs, please let Snug know at rehearsal so we can get them sourced from our wonderful production team
  

Learn your lines, learn your lines, learn your lines!

Annabel Lee

by edgar allan poe

Dispatch from snug:

SCHEDULING

As a reminder, all rehearsals are open to all cast, unless otherwise indicated. We would love to see folks at rehearsal to give feedback, run lines, come up with brilliant ideas, all the things!

Monday, 5/29 @6PM Fairies

Wednesday, 5/31 @5PM Production Meeting

Wednesday, 5/31 @6PM Mechanicals, other welcome, Scene Work

Friday, 6/2 @5PM Lovers, CLOSED REHEARSAL

You should receive calendar invites for nights you have been called, please try to add yes/no/maybe so we can try to have a heads up if someone can not attend a rehearsal. Text Sarah for scheduling stuff at 410-829-0385.

In other news

We are getting to the point where knowing your lines will allow you to get more creative and focus on your scene work.

Learn your lines, learn your lines, learn your lines!

Dispatch from snug:

SCHEDULING

As a reminder, all rehearsals are open to all cast, unless otherwise indicated. We would love to see folks at rehearsal to give feedback, run lines, come up with brilliant ideas, all the things!

Monday, 5/22 @6PM Fairies, Scene Work

Thursday, 5/25 @6PM Shore Shakespeare Workshop! RSVP to shoreshakespearecompany@gmail.com

Friday, 5/26 @5PM Lovers & Mechanicals

You should receive calendar invites for nights you have been called, please try to add yes/no/maybe so we can try to have a heads up if someone can not attend a rehearsal. Text Sarah for scheduling stuff at 410-829-0385.

In other news

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who assisted with yesterday's shoot and made it such a success. It was an ambitious timeline, and there were many pieces that needed to fall into place to make it a success and we can't thank the cast, crew, production team, costuming, film crew(s), and extras enough.

I think our group likes living under pressure, but that is how amazing things are built. That is where the true creative spirit can come from.

Dispatch from snug:

SCHEDULING

Thank you to everyone who responded about Thursday. Due to multiple scheduling conflicts, we are going to do this a little differently and do two smaller groups and then full cast read thru on Saturday.

Thursday May 11 - Read thru/workshop for Fairies and Mechanicals

Friday May 12 - Read thru/workshop for Lovers and Filmed Scenes

Saturday May 13 - Read thru for FULL CAST

You should receive calendar invites for nights that have been called, please try to add yes/no/maybe so we can try to have a heads up if someone can not attend a rehearsal.

Also, we are finishing up the schedule for the rest of the show this week. Please fill out this Doodle poll by Thursday.

In other news

We’ve added some folks to the forest since our first cast list went out. Please welcome Chip Tidings as Lysander and Ricky Vitanovec as Demetrius!

You should have received an invite to join our Google Chat/Team. Please accept the invite and download the app, if you have trouble getting in please reach out to me. This will be our main form of chat with each other (there’s too many of us for a group text) :)

An accumulation of the mass and dust that collapses under the weight of it all, THAT is how a star is born.

Dispatch from snug:

Happy Monday fairies and folks! Still feeling the high of having the whole cast together on Saturday, and getting a little bit of Bard Sonnets, intimacy training, and a great script read!

SCHEDULING

As a reminder, all rehearsals are open to all cast, unless otherwise indicated. We would love to see folks at rehearsal to give feedback, run lines, come up with brilliant ideas, all the things!

Monday, 5/15 @6PM Fairies and Mechanicals, Scene Work

Wednesday, 5/17 @6PM Lovers and Athenians, Filming Rehearsal

Saturday, 5/20 @3PM Lovers and Athenians, Filming Rehearsal AT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Sunday, 5/21 Lovers and Athenians and Extras, FILMING

Keep working on memorizing lines - read your lines out loud, slowly and without inflection at first

In other news

When reading through the script, make sure to read the script in it's entirety to better understand context of your specific scenes, etc.

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Cece's favorite

bits of the bard

Can you spot the difference between these two sonnets?

Chapter one: The Sonnets

Sonnet 130

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

Romeo & Juliet

ROMEO

If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET

Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO

O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET

Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO

Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

This scene is a sonnet!

Dispatch from snug:

PREPARING FOR FIRST REHEARSAL

• Always wear clothes you can move in and socks or bare feet.
• Bring a water bottle, or many beverages. You can never be too hydrated.
• This is an adaptation so the script may and probably will change as we go along
• Start memorizing your lines right now. Read your lines, slowly, out loud, and without any inflection twice a day
• If you have any reference material (books, links) that will help us understand Shakespeare, please share!
  

INSPIRATION

• Any filmed version of MSND, but Cece's favorite is the 1999 version directed by Michael Hoffman
• O'Brother Where Art Thou
• Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl
• Grapes of Wrath
• Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

CHARACTER WORK

To get started with your MSND Character, you'll need to get an understanding of the play, and figure out your character's motives. Here are some questions to ask yourself as you read the script for the first time:

• What do I say about myself?
• What do others say about me?
  
• What is my super objective?
  

In addition to your Shakespeare Character you will need to develop your 1933 character. Here are a few questions to get you started:

• Who is my 1933 self?
  
• Where were they born?
  
• How were they displaced by the Great Depression?
  

Cece's favorite

bits of the bard

Chapter two: The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1

This passage, playing as an epilogue set against the pageantry of a masque, is often interpreted as Shakespeare's self-reflective aside to his audience. It seems a perfect symmetry, after all. The story of the play is nearing its end, Prospero is preparing to give up both his magic and island realm, and The Tempest marks a closing chapter in Shakespeare's theatrical career. It is indeed tempting to hear Shakespeare's own voice lurking beneath the words Prospero speaks.