Photo by Mary Beth Quinker
“ShakesQueer ends with a stylized scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (director Katie Pena-Van Zile) that radiates with riot girl sensibility. Syd Walters’ Peaseblossom and Jane Embry Watts’ Puck are playful and flirtatious as Watts’ trickster toys with the shimmery fairy. The playful banter between Watts and Walters provides a nice juxtaposition for Sasha Cifuentes’ Titania battle of brains with Katherine Martin’s Oberon. Casting spells and conjuring energy, Cifuentes and Martin present a power struggle that runs deeper than obtaining a changeling. Indeed, these royal fairies debate what it means to love in harmony and peace.”
Stagedoor Louisville
KATIE PEÑA-VAN ZILE 