Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Mathay Ballinger Park, Edmonds, WA
July 2027
Next summer, Ballinger Shakespeare Company, established in 2025, and devoted to bringing free summer programming to the Lake Ballinger area in Edmonds, Washington, and beyond, will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare at Mathay-Ballinger Park. Bring a picnic and your family. We’ll see you there!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Director: Will be announced soon!
Plot: In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.
Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” — From Folger Shakespeare Library