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Curious Frog Theatre Company: "A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Scavengers"
Add to CalendarSunday, September 5, 2010
4:00 p.m.
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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.
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.
La misión de Curious Frog es presentar obras nuevas, modernas y clásicas, con el objetivo de mostrar una nueva perspectiva multicultural.
Location
The Peninsula (in Inwood Hill Park), Manhattan
Directions to this location
Please note: Directions link above is to the park entrance at Indian Road and 218 Street. The performance will take place on the Peninsula. From the park entrance, follow the road straight back, cross the bridge, and pass the Nature Center on your left. The performance area will be directly ahead.
Directions
Public transportation:
1 or 9 trains:
Take the 1 or the 9 train to the 215th Street stop. Walk North to 218th Street. Take a left and walk on 218th Street. The entrance to the park is at the end of the street.
A train:
Take the A train to 207th Street. If you are in the last car of the train (near the handicap elevator), proceed west to Seaman Avenue, then north to Isham Street. If you are in the first car of the train, you will exit onto Isham Street. Go west to Seaman Avenue and proceed north into the park, keeping the baseball field to your right. Walk toward the water. The Nature Center is the building on the water, and the Peninsula us just past the Nature Center.
By car:
From the West Side Highway:
Take the Dyckman Street exit. Follow the exit as it merges with Broadway. Drive North on Broadway to 218th Street. Take a left on 218th Street and drive west on 218th Street. The entrance to the park is at the end of the street.
FDR
Take the FDR/East River Drive north to end. The end of the highway is at Dyckman Street. Bear left on Dyckman Street. Take Dyckman west to Broadway, and take a right on Broadway. Proceed north to 218th Street and make a left turn. The entrance to the park is at the end of 218th Street.
Cost
Free
Event Organizer
Northern Manhattan Parks, Curious Frog
Contact Number
(646) 450-2878
