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GENRS BEND UNIQUE, GAY-THEMED ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’

Y, that’s a faiar openg to many a tale, but when the upl are Hermia and Lysanr and Helena and Demetri, and the bar is a gay nightclub wh Puck as the shot boy, then Slipstream Theatre Iniative’s upg productn of William Shakpeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will surely bee one of the major highlights of this year’s Pri celebratns begng June 18 Ferndale. “(It’s) been done every way unr the sun, ” said director Luna Alexanr of the Bard’s classic edy, “and so we cid why not have an absolute blast wh the magic, and wh the fairi, and wh the lover’s stori, and put a gay bar? “Bee they’re at a gay bar, if (Hermia and Helena) were played as femal, wouldn’t make much sense.

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Add a creative reimagg to the mix, and the rult is a new adaptatn which two sets of hapls lovers enter the only gay bar the neighborhood of Athens, Oh, where — acrdg to the show’s prs release — “they learn about self-inty, the ficklens of love and the power of dance to emerge unsthed and ter to themselv the next day. For a play wh mostly gay male characters set si a gay dance club that’s schled to n ncurrent wh Pri events Metro Detro — and cludg partial and possibly full nudy (you’ll have to see the show yourself to fd out which) — one might expect to fd mostly gay actors on the Slipstream stage.

And several of the st have never bared all ont of a payg dience — pecially one that will likely nsist of many gay men eager to check them out. “It’s Shakpeare at a gay bar.

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