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This is Shakespeare's classic comedy, but not how you remember it.

Welcome to Athens, Ohio, 2012: a college town during the height of contemporary music festival culture, where music, money, desire, and escape collide. 

In this seductive adaptation, Shakespeare’s Athens becomes an Appalachian mining town shaped by histories of extraction, transience, and survival, and the forest becomes a wild, electric, temporary festival ground just outside it.

Hermia is a rising singer who refuses to sign away her future. Her refusal to sign a contract that would bind her career—and her body—to industry expectations is not a romantic whim, but an act of consent and self-determination. Her journey takes her into a festival world of music, substances, exhaustion, desire, and blurred boundaries, where anything can happen after dark. 

But this forest isn’t just a playground. It’s ancient Appalachian land with its own memory, history, and people. The fairies emerge as caretakers, workers, cryptids, and witnesses – forces of transformation who also reveal the cost of the dream. 

Funny, seductive, chaotic, and a little dangerous, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a story about love, power, labor, land, and the intoxicating promise of escape.  

But what does it mean to wake up after the music stops? 

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

By William Shakespeare, Adapted by Shannon R. Davis 

October 29-30 | 7pm 

November 1 | 2pm 

November 6 | 7 pm 

November 7-8 | 2 pm 

 

FREE ADMISSION 

Celeste Theatre  | Cornerstone Arts Center (825 N Cascade Ave, 80903)

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The Department of Theatre & Dance at Colorado College produces and performs TOTALLY FREE events throughout the year, open to the community! Follow us on Insta at cctheatredance to stay up to date on a range of events, talks, visiting artists, performances, and more.

Join us as we raise awareness while building Indigenous and allied community in Colorado Springs.

May 5 | 3:30-6pm
Fine Arts Center Taste Room
FREE ENTRY

Colorado College Department of Theatre & Dance is honored to participate in a National Day of Theatre Readings.

Coordinated by the Native Performing Arts Network, dozens of theatres and universities across the U.S. present readings and performances to highlight the MMIWR movement on May 5th, focusing on plays and pieces by Indigenous writers. These productions are a form of activism, aimed at fighting the statistical erasure of Indigenous folks and the lack of media coverage.

5 visiting Indigenous and Latinx artists will perform two staged readings of existing works: Marcie Rendon’s Say Their Names and Jeff Barehand and Jaisey Bates’ Never Be Afraid, as well as chosen monologues and pieces developed during a week-long workshop, alongside Colorado College students.

With a rolling entry, all are welcome to drop in and join us. Light bites will be served, with the performances beginning at 4pm.

All are welcome.

(Be sure to follow our socials at cctheatreanddance for more completely free, open-to-everyone theatre, dance, and art events at Colorado College.)