Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park concludes season with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
An emphasis on broad physical comedy, even more than romantic elements, and the play-within-a-play, almost more than the play itself — especially in the finale — are key aspects of an Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park production of “A Midsummer Night's Dream.”
Directed by Clayton Guiltner, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy-dream play is performed in period finery and outlandish fantasy costumes on the rough-looking but well-constructed, multi-level Myriad Gardens Water Stage.
Michael Gibbons has the right royal bearing, and enough of a hint of severity, as Theseus, the duke of Athens who sets the plot in motion by decreeing that Hermia must accept the proposal of the man her father wants her to, within four days, or be condemned to death or a nunnery.
Small of stature, but mighty, Addie Work brings an intense spitfire energy to Hermia, who flees to the forest to marry the man she loves, Lysander, rather than Demetrius, but soon finds, to her chagrin, that both men are smitten with Helena, due to misdirected herbal eye drops.
Katherine Wortley has some hilarious moments as Helena, becoming literally doglike, and rolling on the floor, because of her unrequited love for Demetrius, and later fleeing, successfully, due to her longer legs, from the fury of her former best friend and rival, Hermia.
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