Liberty High School Drama Program presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream

When: November 15, 16, 21 and 22 at 7:30pm, and November 23 at 2:30pm and 7:30
Tickets: Available at the door. Adults $8, Seniors/Under 12/Students with Liberty ASB cards $6

Renton, WA.  October 25, 2013:  Liberty High School’s award-winning Patriot Players are about to kick of their 36th season with William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  The production will be the first non-musical presented in the new Performing Arts Center on the Liberty Campus, where the next phase of a major remodel is underway.  

The first Saturday night performance on November 16 will be proceeded by a special dedication ceremony honoring the original Drama teacher at Liberty, Jill Landback, after whom the new auditorium will be named.  Many of Ms. Landback’s former students will be there to celebrate her legacy.

A cast of 25 students plus staff members and dozens of volunteers have been working diligently to present the classic story with a new twist.  This show will be set in the 1950s when, like the society in Shakespeare’s original, strict social codes were challenged by an underground culture.  In Liberty’s interpretation, the magical fairies are transformed into poetry-spouting beatniks in an urban underground.  “The Patriot Players always seek to do things differently,” says junior Parker Simpson, who plays Bottom.  

For more information: klekask@issaquah.wednet.edu

Photo by Sarah Edmonds: Bottom (junior Parker Simpson) isn’t quite sure to what to make of the strong come-on from Fairy Queen Titania (senior Natalie Gress).