A Midsummer Night’s Dream

When reality and fantasy merge exactly…

From the Quarto edition of 1600

Has there been a more joyous play written than A Midsummer Night’s Dream? It leaves the receptive audience unfailingly delighted. I recall seeing it one time at the Chatham Playhouse on Cape Cod — the summer night held just a bit of mist that wound itself through the trees along the path as we walked away, not unlike the mist in the fairyland…