
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Fairyland Experience
Thank you for attending WRT's 2023 summer production, and welcome to our digital program!
Cast
In Alphabetical Order By Last Name
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Director's Note
Thank you for joining us for A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Fairyland Experience! Welcome to Fairyland and forget your troubles behind you. Today, we will dine and dance and drink with the fairies and cause some lovers mischief along the way.
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The original inspiration for this piece came about a year ago from a large oak tree covered in fairy lights and the evening summer breeze on my shoulders. I was unclear about what to do with my artistic intent as I had grown somewhat weary of theatre in its most traditional form. This tree made me realize I didn't simply wish to watch the fairies, but I wanted to be amongst them myself!
From then on, Jesse Baxter and I began to sort out our values when it came to theatre, community, and equity. This is how Wine and Revelry Theatre was born, out of these conclusions:
We like to consider ourselves a professional theatre with community values and we worked to strengthen our relationships within the theatre by prioritizing building an intentional community. We strive for equity and collaboration by utilizing many devised theatre techniques and Meisner directing methods. In this way, the world you have stepped into today is not simply mine, but ours. Every member of the cast was given the freedom to create their own intricate stories while contributing to the group message, and I aimed to facilitate opportunities for connection, surprise, and experimentation. In my view, it is the actor's job to create an experience for the audience, so it is a director's job to create an experience for the actors. To this day, I am still noticing new intricacies that the actors have developed throughout the production, and it creates a different experience every time. Personally, I love how new surprises await within every individual production, and I love how a small amount of unpredictability can enliven both actors and the audience.
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As you sip your wine, remember you are a magical being yourself! Don't forget to visit the fairy queen, advise a heartsick lover, or craft with a fairy. They are eager to speak with you and bring you into their world.
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Thank you for your support and patronage, and thank you to the beautiful, talented, hilarious cast. Thank you for trusting me and going on this wild journey to Fairyland. You make me excited about life, art, and friendship. You have truly made this the summer of dreams.
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All my love,
Cassidy Cagney
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Special Thanks
We could not have done this without you, and we are incredibly grateful to have your support for this show.
Thank you to our generous hosts at North Cork Vineyard and Winery and we hope we will have the privilege to work with you again in the future.
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Thank you to Alexis Sosa for helping us get this project off the ground.
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Thank you to Graham Young for your incredible dedication to capturing this process and sharing your creative talents with us.
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Thank you to our beautiful, talented, and creative cast who worked together to devise a world of magic. We will never forget how you made this the summer of dreams.

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