Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is supposed to take place as a dream on a summer night in a wooded forest, so it’s befitting that Midsomer Flight is presenting the comedy in a park setting during mid-summer.
What could be more appropriate than watching the laugh-filled fantasy of love gone awry among the verdant trees, foliage, and silky grass of a city park.
Jack Morsovillo as Bottom (C) surrounded by fairies: (L–R) Kat Zheng, Hannah Mary Simpson, Elizabeth McAnulty Quilter, Travis Shanahan in Midsomer Flight’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” (Steven Townshend, Distant Era)
Part of the Chicago Park District’s “Night Out in the Parks” series, the magical tale revolves around romantics whose love becomes misplaced when they come upon a fairy in the Athenian forest….