Director
The University of Michigan Flint - 2011
Scenic Design by Stephen D. Landon, with UM-Flint student Lacie Tate
Costume Design by Shelby Newport
Lighting Design by Doug Mueller
“…a startling leap with the current production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Director Janet Haley chose to set this usually verdant tale in a crumbling industrial area clearly fashioned after recent images of Detroit and Flint….a 1930s theme is reflected in costumes and sound…forest is a fire-blackened woods within an abandoned playground/clearing, the faerie spirit called Puck explodes magically from the remains of a metal jungle gym…he frolics about in the collected flotsam and bits of discarded refuse. His favorite place of concealment in a garbage can provided a hilarious moment Friday night….Scenes transition to the thirties musical sounds of an old table-top radio and often find the endearing elderly tailor, Robin Starveling cautiously inching his way off the stage. In the end, magic prevails in spite of the surroundings, or perhaps because of them. The message here may be that life and love is up to us; that its passion can burst forth anywhere in a fanfare of bright lights, music and applause.”
– Flint Stages