by
Carmi Rothberg
| 11/04/2014
“Are you sure that we are awake?” Demetrius (Raphael Stigliano ’18) asks Hermia (Tova Weinberger ’18) in Hold Thy Peace’s recent production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He continues, “It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.” And indeed, the ’80s-themed play is so full of sharp contrasts?Shakespeare’s centuries-old writing emerging from the mouths of the young, energetic cast as they leap around a modern, graffitied set while fairies dance to David Bowie music?that it takes on a decidedly dreamlike, if occasionally jarring, feel.The play ran from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon this past week in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater, drawing viewers from the cold rain outside.
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