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Shakespeare in the Park Performance:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 25-27, 2022 | Memorial Park (225 Karlskoga Ave)
Park opens at 6P | Puppet show at 6:45P | Performance begins at 7P
Everyone knows a few lines of Shakespeare. Everyone’s seen a play or two. Experience another of the world’s greatest playwright’s works in the newly renovated Memorial Park Bandshell. Shakespeare in the Park is a high-quality annual theater event presented free of charge to the public by the Wheaton Park District and Wheaton College’s Arena Theater.
We are thankful for our partnership with the Wheaton College Area Theater over the years and excited to see this year’s performance.
For more about Arena Theater and other arts events at Wheaton College, visit https://wheaton.edu/arts.
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PERFORMANCE:
2022: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
About: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Plot synopsis
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in the woods a play they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations.
Four young Athenians are in a romantic tangle. Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia; she loves Lysander and her friend Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia’s father, Egeus, commands Hermia to marry Demetrius, and Theseus supports the father’s right. All four young Athenians end up in the woods, where Robin Goodfellow, who serves the fairy king Oberon, puts flower juice on the eyes of Lysander, and then Demetrius, unintentionally causing both to love Helena. Oberon, who is quarreling with his wife, Titania, uses the flower juice on her eyes. She falls in love with Bottom, who now, thanks to Robin Goodfellow, wears an ass’s head.
As the lovers sleep, Robin Goodfellow restores Lysander’s love for Hermia, so that now each young woman is matched with the man she loves. Oberon disenchants Titania and removes Bottom’s ass’s head. The two young couples join the royal couple in getting married, and Bottom rejoins his friends to perform the play.
-From the Folger Shakespeare Library website: https://www.folger.edu/midsummer-nights-dream
CAST & CREW
PUPPET SHOW

Noah Chapman (‘25), Anna Perri (‘23), Ashley Swaner (‘25), Emma Ware (‘24), Lydia Ritchie (‘23), Meredith Wilcox (‘25), Jessie Wright (‘23)
THE BAND
Margaret Winchell (‘15), Noel Streacker (‘17), Elisabeth Wismer (‘14), Thomas Ritchie (‘10), Emma Ware (‘24)
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director………Jenn Miller Cribbs*
Assistant Director/Company Manager………Felicia Bertch
Producer/Scenic Designer/Puppet Master……Andy Mangin
Production Assistant………Alison Gibson
Production Stage Manager………Sarah Luse*
Assistant Stage Managers………Lydia Ritchie and Anna Perri
Costume and Puppet Designer……Jeremy Floyd
Costume Assistant/Costume Shop Supervisor………Heidi Elliott
Lighting Designer………Diane Fairchild**
Music Director/Composer………Margaret Winchell
Composer/Arranger………Hannah Cruz
Props Masters………Lydia Ritchie ‘23 and Heidi Elliott
Fight Choreographer………Dave Reifsnyder
Company Assistants………Mark Lewis, Phoebe Silva, Naomi Talbott
Costume Crew………Hadleigh Callahan, Noah Chapman, Caitlin Curry, Anna Perri, Magnolia Smoak, Meredith Wilcox
Set Crew………Jackie Fitzgerald, Beau Hill, Anna Rios, Phoebe Silva, Ashley Swaner, Emma Ware, Jessie Wright, Zoé Zervas
Class Years indicate Wheaton College Alumni
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association
**Member United Scenic Artists 829
The professional actors who are joining us this evening are all alumni of the theater program at Wheaton College. For more about Arena Theater and other arts events at Wheaton College, visit wheaton.edu/arts.
PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED
2013: As You Like It
2014: Love’s Labour’s Lost
2015: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2016: Twelfth Night
2017: Much Ado About Nothing
2018: The Tempest
2021: Henry IV, Part 1
GALLERY
DETAILS:
Admission
Admission is free–donations are welcomed!
Concessions
Concessions will be available.
Concession proceeds will benefit the DuPage County Historical Museum.
Seating
Limited seating is available. Guests are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and picnic blankets.
Directions & Parking
Please visit memorialparkwheaton.com to view directions and parking information.
Weather
Performances will happen rain or shine, with the exception of severe weather. Any delays or cancellations due to inclement weather will be posted on the Wheaton Park District Facebook page, and RainoutLine.
PARTNER WITH US:
For information on sponsorship and vending opportunities please contact Margie Wilhelmi at mwilhelmi@wheatonparks.org or 630-510-4984.
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