BCHS to adapt Shakespeare
Published 12:24 pm Tuesday, December 20, 2016
- The cast of Buckingham County High School’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream includes, from left, front, Brianna Chapman, Joey Steger, Brayden Trimble, Emma Auten, Diante’ Lee, Addie Auten; back row, Christina Reams, Leah Moxley, Rebecca Scharer, Samantha Poole, Tahjmir Gough, Alyssa Gentry, Jeffrey Stanley, Sarah Brown and Alexander Ragland. Not pictured are cast members Mya Chambers, De’Shawna Eldridge, Lexys Harrison, Laurel Logan, Courtney Miller, Dylan Miller and April Sage.
Buckingham County High School drama students will present an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s iconic play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28 in the school’s auditorium.
According to audience surveys, this fantasy play remains one of Shakespeare’s most beloved of all time. It captures a concept important to all of us: the ability to choose one’s own love. Four young lovers become entangled in the crosshairs of a duke’s royal decree and a fairy king’s enchantments.
A subplot of the play includes the town bumpkins who are “goodly,” but not very bright. They decide to put together a little play of their own to entertain the duke at his wedding feast. When the mischievous Puck intervenes and turns one of them into a donkey, confusion and hilarity ensue. As Shakespeare would say, “That’s the stuff of which good plots are made.”
Tickets are $6.
