Marin Shakespeare Company

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Director's Note

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

June 13 - July 13, 2025

Director's Note

Director’s Notes

We exist in a place where music moves like breath, where dance carries story, and where Shakespeare’s timeless poetry hums with laughter, mischief, and mystery. A Midsummer Night’s Dream invites us into a world where transformation is not only possible—it is inevitable. Beneath the boughs of enchanted trees and in the glow of moonlit wonder, the rules of our waking life dissolve. In their place, we find play, desire, absurdity, and the wild, unpredictable magic of love.

May we see ourselves in this strange and beautiful tale—flawed, resilient, curious—and engage with its reflections. May its themes of illusion and insight, power and forgiveness, awaken in us a yearning to connect more deeply with each other. Perhaps, if only for a few hours, we can become children again: running through the forest, laughing without reason, dreaming together beneath the stars.

To give our attention—to a story, to a stranger, to the moment—is a powerful act. It is an offering. A gesture of love. And where there is love, imagination breathes freely. When we imagine, we create. This is the sacred exchange between artist and audience. This is the necessity of theater. Because through imagination, we are transformed. And this, above all, is why
A Midsummer Night’s Dream continues to bloom—today, tomorrow, and long after we’re gone.

Let us plant seeds of dialogue. Let us water them with joy, with care, and with courage. And may something new, something necessary, take root—right here, with all of us, in this shared dream.

BRIDGETTE LORIAUX (she/her)

Director, Choreographer, Adaptor: A Midsummer
Night’s Dream

Credits include Movement Direction for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, SF Playhouse; Beatrice, Gertrude & Choreographer for Much Ado About Nothing & Hamlet; Adapted, Directed & Choreographed Twelfth Night for Marin Shakespeare Company’s 2023-2024 Summer Seasons.

2 ½ Breaths, a play she wrote, directed, and choreographed made its World Premiere off-Broadway debut May 19, 2022. Aerialist: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; cast member NYC off-Broadway/International Tour: De La Guarda; Cast Member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 1997-2000. Collaborations with TheatreFIRST, Anton’s Well Theatre Company, UCSC, San Jose State University, African-American Shakespeare Company, and Darb1718 in Cairo, Egypt.

Cast

(in alphabetical order)

Demetrius/Flute
Ixtlan*

Lysandra/Snout
Adrian Deane

Peaseblossom/Philostrate
Carla Gallardo

Titania/Hippolyta
Charisse Loriaux*

Oberon/Theseus
Johnny Moreno*

Egeus/Quince
Richard Pallaziol

Bottom
Steve Price

Puck
Rob Seitelman

Hermia/Snug
Storm White

Helena/Starveling
Elena Wright*