Midsummer Night's Dream- First Day of Interpretation

Thursday: almost everyone arrived at Shakespeare with a good will, and excitement and anticipation in hearts and minds. Mrs. Harvigson, who (along with Shakespeare's input in his plays)is genrally the one mostly in charge of the set design, showed us how to make a canvas out of sheets, and offered anyone who wanted to help paint the scenery to do so- nearly everyone volunteered:)

Then Mrs. Ward came, and we ran through Act I, Scene I of the play... in which Theseus, Hippolyta, Hermia, Egeus, Helena, Demetrius, Lysander and- well, anyone else who was in that scene was introduced. Along with the conflict. And the poetry.

Those afore mentioned then went outside and "re-wrote" the scene in modern day English (just for fun, not for the performance), and came back in and put the scene on for us- which, I can tell you, was tons of fun to watch, and even more so to do, I'm sure.