Dramaturg/Director/Dancer/Musician
A Misdummer Night's Dream
Client
Brigham Young University
Year
2023
Location
Provo, UT USA
Casebook
An age-old Shakespearean classic with a new twist, slumber party!
Workshops
Spencer Fields (the lead Dramaturgy) and I spent time helping the actors look into the script with new eyes as well as helped them better understand the history and world of Shakespeare.
Lobby Displays
This was a TYA (theatre for young audiences) production. So even when it was being performed at the university of course we had to help the audience step into a world of play, and sleepover parties. This allowed them to start to see what the play would be like before the even stepped foot into the theatre.
Post-Show
Shakespeare can be hard to understand. It can be even harder to understand when the creative team takes a spin and adapts the play to how they want, shorter and with a fun style. That's why we as dramaturgs ran post-show disscusions. It allowed the audience to ask questions to us the dramaturgs, but even more so to the actors on how they delt with understanding Shakespeare and perfoming it in a creative way for the audience to comprehend.
Program Writeup
I had the opportunity to work on the program study guide and do some writeups for this production, you can check them out in my casebook linked above, as well as in the program attached below.
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