PHS to present Spring Play, March 22-24

"The course of love never did run smooth." So wrote William Shakespear in 1595, and the sentiment remains true as Perryville High School plans to present his play "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Performances are set for 7 pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 22-24 at the PHS Performing Arts Auditorium in the Old Senior High School. Admission is $4 at the door.

The show is directed by Jennifer Birk-Cook. The backstage techs are Kelc Creason and Hailey Moll, Wade Hamlin is the sound and light tech and sound tech is Nick Pohlman.

The cast includes Shane Metzger as Theseus, Harley Taylor at Egeus, Kevin Cowger as Lysander with Taylor as the understudy, Luke Edwards as Demetrius with Michael Buchheit as understudy, Mariah Adams as Philostrate, Tristen Dunker as Quince, Heather Cook as Bottom with Adams as understudy, Buchheit as Flute, Elizabeth Munier as Snout, Ellen Booth as Starveling, Megan Gallaway as Hippolyta, Kalena Schubert as Hermia with Kaitlyn Schloss as understudy, Helena with Makinzie Griffith as understudy, Matt Choka as Oberon, Taylor Kassinger as Titania, Kaitlyn Chotrow as Puck with Paiton Cooper as understudy, Griffith as Peasblossom, Cheyenne Davis as Cobweb, Adams as Moth, Cooper as Mustardseed, Schloss as Speaking Fairy, and Brittany Norfolk, Davis, Creason and Moll as Amazons and fairies.

"This drama is one of the great comedy plays by Shakespeare," Birk-Cook said. "Our audiences will have a great time with this show.

"The play revolves around the adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The story takes place in midsummer and is a farce featuring Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius. Their romantic intrigues are confused and complicated still further by entering the forest kingdom of Oberon, the King of the Fairies and his Queen Titania.

"Puck the fairy is full of mischief and tricks and Bottom the weaver and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince and Flute keep the comedy rolling as they try to rehearse their terrible version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe.

"We're having a great time rehearsing, and we hope you'll join us for an evening of humor and fun."