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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Written by William Shakespeare
Narrated by Joseph Marcell, Samantha Eggar, Bairbre Dowling and
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An abbreviated version of Shakespeare's comedy featuring the clowns and the fairies, without most of the love stories. Run amok with the rustics, as played by CART's finest.
Starring: Joseph Marcell as Oberon, Samantha Eggar as Titania, William Windom as Bottom, Ian Abercrombie as Thesius, Elliott Reid as Quince, Marvin Kaplan as Startling, Parley Baer as Stout, Marty Maguire as Puck, Richard Erdman as Flute, Bairbre Dowling as First Fairy, Kathleen Freeman as Hippolita, John Bliss as Snug, Paul Keith as Pholestrota, with Host Jeanette Nolan, and CART's Announcer John Harlan.
Adapted, produced, and directed by Peggy Webber.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.
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