Recreating one of William Shakespeare’s most whimsical plays takes imagination.
Director Ashley McGlothren and the cast and crew behind A Midsummer Night’s Dream is turning Pensacola Little Theatre into Athens, Greece, for a production running March 5-21.
But this isn’t the same Athens as the Elizabethan era city and its magical forest found in Shakespeare’s original. McGlothren and crew at Pensacola Little Theatre have set their production of the festive comedy in the 1930s, moving it from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
“Our production has been moved from the original time period to the late 1930s,” McGlothren said. “We are still placing the show in Athens, which in the late 1930s was experiencing a lot of political turmoil.”