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Myth #1: Ballet is boring. Here is the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia. Demetrius loves Hermia. Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia's dad, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander flee. Oberon, who is fighting with Titania for a child, orders Puck to use a magic flower to make Demetrius love Helena...
Puck screws up. Lysander now loves Helena. Demetrius now loves Helena. Oberon now loves the rear end of Bottom, whose head has been replaced by donkey...
David R. Gammons plays Oberon as a playful pan-sexual creature who puffs on colored cigarettes as he entertains himself with other people's lives. While sometimes, difficult to hear, Gammons is a strong fairy king. But he is less inspired in the lesser role of Theseus, the duke whose impending marriage leads everyone to the forest...
...Oberon's female counterpart Titania is played by Jenny Davidson, whose shock of green hair adds an ethereal touch to her competent portrayal of the fairy queen...
...most disappointing performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream comes from Tom Chick, who plays Oberon's jester Puck, who unfortunately gets a little confused about who should be loving whom. Chick is flat rather than impish, insipid instead of intelligent. Puck is normally the most memorable character of this comedy--but not in this production...