Curious Frog Theatre Company Presents: "A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Scavengers"

A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Scavengers will tour nine NYC parks over six weekends this summer as part of Curious Frog's fourth annual Shakespeare in the Parks program, enriching under-served audiences with free classical theatre from July 31 to September 5. Detailed directions to each park including subway stops are available at Curious Frog's website, www.curiousfrog.org.

Curious Frog's Executive Director Reneé Rodriguez places the comedy on a college campus during a fraternity/sorority scavenger hunt. The lovers become contestants, the mechanicals are part of the campus staff, and both groups cross paths with real fairies. Rodriguez envisions a highly physical, quickly-paced production integrating lots of acrobatics, movement, and "far more stage combat than is usually seen." She recently posted on Facebook, "If you like stage combat, and even if you are a Midsummer-hater, I assure you—you're gonna freakin' LOVE our A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Scavengers."

Curious Frog's mission is to present new, modern, and classical works with the goal of showing a new, multicultural perspective through non-traditional casting that does not hinder understanding or believing a work, but rather enhances the work in an innovative manner and fosters fresh perceptions.