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...both dancer and actor. Helena (Christina Elida Salerno) in particular does a spectacular job, her face and movements displaying the comical screams and melodramatic gasps that are not permitted to leave her lips as both Lysander (Alexander Srb) and Demetrius (Gino DiMarco) pursue her. Lysander and his true love, Hermia (Marjorie Grundvig), create a lovely image of passionate lovers fleeing from their confining world. The four "Rustics"--Bottom and his crew--deliver perfectly timed comic relief, and the royal couple of Titania (Natasha Akhmarova) and Oberon (Laszlo Berdo) take everyone's breath away with their emotional grace and dignified stage...
Myth #1: Ballet is boring. Here is the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia. Demetrius loves Hermia. Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia's dad, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander flee. Oberon, who is fighting with Titania for a child, orders Puck to use a magic flower to make Demetrius love Helena...
...with most of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about romance gone awry. The young woman, Hermia, is in love with Lysander. But her father Egeus has another husband in mind for her, Demetrius. Meanwhile, another woman, Helena, is passionately in love with Demetrius, who once returned her love but now repudiates...
There is nothing diminutive about Heather Dyan Hughes' acting, despite the poignant jokes about her stature that the characters make. As Hermia, she is fluid throughout the play, and gives an especially effective performance as she prepares to elope but is then rejected by her lover Lysander...
...with the welcome addition of Chris Clemenson, who makes an impassively cheerful Snout and a ponderously funny Wall. The male lovers, Stephen Rowe's Demetrius and Eric Eliee's Lysander, are as energetic a pair as they were last season; new faces animate the female roles--Cynthia Darlow as Hermia and Cherry Jones as Helena. Darlow's Hermia thrusts her lower lip out at life with a little-girl pout that is sometimes winning and a whine that's sometimes shrill; Jones is more the robust than the morose Helena, bludgeoning Demetrius with her lust. The four lovers interact with...