A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Free Summer Shakespeare

Creative Team

Director – Adam Knight
Scenic Designer – Robert Sunderman
Costume Designer – Heather Klar
Lighting Designer – Lowden Flower
Sound Designer – Tyler Salow
Songs Composed by Mary Jane Knight
Props Designer – Stephen Polchert
Intimacy Direction – Carrie Pozdol
Fight Choreographer – K. Michael Moore
Verse Coach – Kathleen Johnson
Choreographer – Keegan Colletta Huckfeldt
Stage Manager – Melissa L.F. Turner*
Assistant Stage Manager – Jordan Jones*
Costume Associate/Wardrobe – Chelsea Prestien
Costume Assistants – Hannah Oldham & Joni Sackett
Production Assistant – Sammi Lewis
Head Electrician/Board Operator – Victoria Wojdan

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Location

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Adam Knight
Sponsored by ImOn Communications

June 12 – 28, 2026 at Lower City Park
All shows free – no ticket reservation required

Synopsis:

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

Shakespeare’s beloved comedy brings together three wonderfully mismatched worlds: the grand court of Athens, a scrappy group of amateur actors rehearsing a play, and a glittering fairy kingdom hidden in the forest. When four young lovers flee the city to follow their hearts, they wander into a place where anything can happen, and usually does. A mischievous fairy named Puck, armed with a magic flower, sends the lovers chasing each other in all the wrong directions, and the queen of the fairies falls head over heels for a buffoonish “ass.” When dawn breaks, love wins, and all that’s left to do is celebrate with three weddings and a play-within-a-play so charmingly terrible it just might steal the show.