Sleepless -a Midsummer Night-s Dream- • Popular & Deluxe

But what happens when that slumber is denied? What happens when the forest is not a place of escape, but a labyrinth of insomnia?

In the final moments, the three couples are married. The mechanicals perform their play-within-a-play ("Pyramus and Thisbe") as a grotesque, jerky puppet show. But as Theseus declares that the "iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve," the lights do not go out. They flicker. They surge. Puck appears not as a trickster, but as a stage manager holding a broken clock. SLEEPLESS -A Midsummer Night-s Dream-

If you have the chance to see this production—go. Bring coffee. Bring a friend to hold your hand. And do not, under any circumstances, close your eyes. But what happens when that slumber is denied

Enter the provocative re-imagining of the text: . This is not your high school English teacher’s Shakespeare. This is the Bard filtered through the lens of sleep-deprivation horror, psychological thriller, and the frantic, electric anxiety of a mind that cannot shut down. They surge

Because we are living in a .

obliterates that reset button.

destroys that contract.