{"id":4161,"date":"2020-01-26T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:10:22","slug":"detroit-mercy-theatre-company-presents-a-midsummer-nights-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2020\/01\/26\/detroit-mercy-theatre-company-presents-a-midsummer-nights-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Mercy Theatre Company&#8217;s \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d opens this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?resize=993%2C582&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Detroit Mercy Theatre Company's \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.&quot;\" width=\"993\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?resize=768%2C450&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?resize=1024%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?resize=939%2C550&amp;ssl=1 939w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?resize=426%2C250&amp;ssl=1 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Detroit Mercy Theatre Company\u2018s \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream,\u201d written by William Shakespeare and directed by Outreach &amp; Audience Development Coordinator Damian Torres-Botello, S.J. is coming Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d explores love in all its forms, bringing it to the center of the Bard\u2019s most magical play where chaos and mishaps abound as fiery lovers, amateur actors, mischievous fairies and the forces of nature collide. Witness a world transformed into a place of magic, laughter and healing, as we journey into the woods to unearth the follies and foibles of human beings\u2026and fairies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wacky, whimsical and reimagined production is Detroit Mercy Theatre Company\u2019s first Shakespearean play in a decade,\u201d said Greg Grobis, chair of the Department of Performing Arts at University of Detroit Mercy. \u201cIn a time when our country is divided and our world is in disorder, producing a play that feels fanciful on the surface yet reveals consequences of malevolence is rather appropriate.\u201d Grobis says the production embraces the language of Shakespeare while stepping into the modern age, marrying the previous century with our new decade. It is a play not to be missed.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/life\/theatre\/midsummer.php\">Click here for tickets and more information<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy Theatre Company\u2018s \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream,\u201d written by William Shakespeare and directed by Outreach &amp; Audience Development Coordinator Damian Torres-Botello, S.J. is coming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":4001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[2228,2369,216,1662,2229,1193,2226,2227],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/12\/midsummer.jpg?fit=1920%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-157","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}