I think it’s so neat that, on any given day in a certain week of each summer, you can go to a county park and watch Shakespeare.
Or, in this case, you can watch Shakespeare at a local farm market.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A Midsummer Night’s Dream cast members Camryn Hayward, 10; Natalie Chamberlain, 9; and Annie Bova, 9, get dressed in their fairy costumes outside the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion on Saturday, July 21, 2012. DreamWrights Youth Family Theatre’s annual summer Theatre Under the Trees program produced eight free performances of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A cast member’s copy of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – complete with sticky notes – sits amid blueberries, eyeglasses and other items on a picnic table at the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion before DreamWrights Youth Family Theatre’s Theatre Under the Tree’s production on Saturday, July 21, 2012. Since 1998, Theatre Under the Trees has produced Shakespeare plays for free at various York County parks. This year, the program held its opening night performance at Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market after the first performance – scheduled to be at Gifford Pinchot State Park – was rained out.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A Midsummer Night’s Dream cast members Wilder Harrison-O’Neill, Julia Levis and Devin Palmieri stretch with the rest of the cast and crew outside the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion before starting their production on Saturday, July 21, 2012.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Performing as the characters Demetrius and Lysander respectively, Nathaniel Tyson and Joey Miller duke it out over the woman their characters now rival for love in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as fairy king Oberon – played by Devin Palmieri – observes from afar and spurned lover Hermia – played by Theresa Strange – protests in confusion, on Saturday, July 21, 2012, at the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Lantern in hand, Taylor Hayward — playing a fairy — makes her way to the pavilion at Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market for a closing scene of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Saturday, July 21, 2012.
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