Photo Flash: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Independent Shakespeare Company

Independent Shakespeare Co. (ISC), presenters of the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival announce performances of Shakespeare's reverie of love, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, directed by Independent Shakespeare Co.'s Managing Director David Melville. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM will begin previews on Saturday, October 15, will open on Friday, October 21 at 7:30pm and performs through Sunday, November 20 at Independent Studio in the Atwater Crossing Arts + Innovation Complex, 3191 Casitas Ave., #168 in Atwater Village.

In A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, the lines between dreaming and waking are deliciously blurred. As the King and Queen of fairies do battle in a fantastical forest, they find their world interrupted by mortals: four young lovers on the run and a group of amateur actors preparing for the biggest performance of their lives. As the humans submit to the magic of the woods, they find themselves in the longest, wildest, most transformative night of their lives.

Comments David Melville, "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is actually one of Shakespeare's most sophisticated plays. In it, Shakespeare creates a world that is as confounding as it is magical. Its intricately plotted, intersecting storylines evoke a complex world full of unseen forces. Our production, in which nine actors switch almost acrobatically from role to role, is as fun and lively as the audience expects, but also explores the darker and more elemental underpinnings and energy of the play. The action of the play is over the course of one wild, mysterious night, and our production reflects that-it's like being at a really great, weird party full of eccentrics."

For tickets, please call (818) 710-6306 or buy online at www.iscla.org

Check out photos of the production below:

Photo credit: Grettel Cortes Photography

Kalean Ung and Faqir Hassan

April Fritz and Evan Lewis Smith

April Fritz, Evan Lewis Smith, Erwin Tuazon and Tatiana Louder

Sam Breen

Sam Breen and Kalean Ung