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\n\nOPENING June 9, 2023
\nVETERANS MEMORIAL PARK
\n\nALL SEATS ARE FREE | NO TICKETS ARE NEEDED
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\n\nPaul’s local directing credits include:
\n\nA Streetcar Named Desire
\n\tBlythe Spirit
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\n\nActing credits include:
\n\nFather in The Father
\n\tThe Ghost in Hamlet
\n\tLear in King Lear
\n\tJames Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night
\n\tComedy of Errors | Directed by Paul Ford
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\n\nIt could be argued that Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors has no socially redeeming value. A very young William Shakespeare cobbled together his own take on several ancient Roman comedies – zapped it with a modern sensibility – wrote in better jokes – added more plot twists – and included a dash of his growing romantic brilliance – and voilà.
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It's all that and it is more.
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It is filled with mad-dash playful action interrupted by stand-up routines – mistaken identities and their hilarious consequences – melodramatic longing and joyous reunions.
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At its heart, is a play about the exuberance of youth.
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The Comedy of Errors does not shed new light on the human condition or plumb the depths of the human psyche. It throws a brilliant and playful spotlight on the simple follies of humble humans.
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It is a play about us.
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How nice of Shakespeare to send us this giggling love letter 400 years ago. He knew we would open it with glee.
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After a 2 year stint riding the rails with the circus, Julia headed for Chicago where she performed all over the Chicago land and Regional Midwest, earning her Actors Equity card as well as her Screen Actors Guild membership in 1992. It was in Chicago where Julia branched out from performing, to working with Playwrights to develop scripts, and learning the art of Directing from some of Chicago's finest directing talents. She also collaborated with modern dancers and choreographers, culminating in a yearly program of original material crossing the boundaries of theatre performance and dance to create The City Sideshow.
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Her ability to imagine and invent spectacle led her to a job offer in NYC, where she became a producer and learned to apply the art of Theatre to the Science of Communication through large staged events and business theatre. She worked for several production companies focused on the corporate world, all while improv'ing her way around the greater NYC area. In 1999 she decided to "head for the hills" literally, and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico as a freelance producer and assistant stage/deck manager. Since then her work has taken her all over the world, working on corporate events for many of this country's top Fortune 100 companies.
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In Albuquerque, Julia has also been active in the Theatre and Film scene, performing both onstage and in front of the camera. Bringing together her artistic abilities with her skills as a producer, she became the Chief Instigator of The Mother Road Theatre Company, currently in it’s 13.5th Season; a professional regional company dedicated to promoting the arts in New Mexico through education and high standards of performance.
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\n\nIf Samhain or Halloween is the night, where the veils between the living
\nand the dead are thin, in many cultures, Midsummer is the night that
\nthe Faeries come out and play, the night when you dance around the
\nbonfire in the forest, only to realize you are not dancing alone and
\nwhen you open your eyes the next morning, you’re not sure if what you
\nexperienced was real or simply a vision.
\nAs a general rule, I prefer not to set my Shakespeare pieces in a specific
\ntime period, and again I feel like Midsummer is in its own time. And for
\nme that is the magical moment between waking and sleeping - the slow
\nsurfacing from the depths of your dreamscape - the liminal space on
\nthe threshold of beginning. In order to have a beginning you need to
\nhave a beforetime. It’s here where we find our Midsummer.
The Italians have a word for this beforetime. Dormiveglia - the space
\nthat stretches between sleeping and waking. Not many people know
\nthis, but it is in this place that the Faeries rule. Everything is possible in
\nthe moments you dwell here; the sweet, the sad, the irreverent and the
\nridiculous. If you know me, you know I prefer the ridiculous over just
\nabout anything.
\nLast year when I took on As You Like It, I coined it the “Party Show” of
\nthe Festival. This year is something a little different. This year we are
\nTHE HEART show. I invite you to let yourself sink here in this moment in
\nthe no-time. Let yourself be enchanted and pause in the mystic
\ndoorway with us.
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\n\nCAST of A Midsummer Night's Dream
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No tickets are required and all seats are FREE.
\n\nYou may bring lawn chairs, cushions and stadium seats for the benches, blankets and picnics and dogs on leashes. (no alcohol)
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There is plenty of room for wheelchairs.
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