A Midsummer Night's Dream

Directed by Patricia Whiley | Specially Performed in the Keizer Elks Club Backyard | Sponsored by The Keizer Elks Club

Before Netflix, podcasts, and even before electricity — there was a guy in tights writing the original binge-worthy drama.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was a playwright, actor, poet, occasional pun-enthusiast, and full-time observer of human chaos. He gave us jealous generals, star-crossed teenagers, magical forests, terrible decisions, mistaken identities, sword fights, and more family drama than a group text gone wrong.

His plays were written for ordinary people — not fancy scholars — performed outdoors, with audiences talking back, eating snacks, and reacting loudly. In other words… pretty much exactly like summer theatre today.

Four hundred years later, his stories still work because people still fall in love too fast, trust the wrong friend, misread texts (okay — letters), and dramatically overreact. Shakespeare understood humans better than humans understand humans.

So bring a chair, bring a blanket, bring a friend — and spend time laughing at the fact that we haven’t changed a bit since 1600.

_If all the world’s a stage… summer is the best seat in the house._ 🎭

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February 20, 2026