/Portals/2/logos/__TFMF_wlvhprromt1mbs450yitwr45_9738b27a-692d-4c99-8182-8570f5fb8352_0___Selected.jpg en-us Copyright 2008 - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 15:11:20 GMT 15 By Brittany Holm

The Utah Shakespearean Festival have recently changed their title to simply, The Shakespeare Festival. This festival is an amazing piece of Utah culture. The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is highly reccommened. It was a live performance in the Adams Shakespearean Theater, which is a theater that is outside, and directly representative of Shakespeare’s original Globe Theater. The actors did an amazing job at capturing the comedy and romance that Shakespeare meant to be felt through this play. Kymberly Mellen, the actress that played Hippolyta and Titania, nailed her parts. The first thing the audience saw and heard was her, who was fully in character and stunned everyone to complete and utter silence. Her accent was much different than how she had talked at the play orientation which showed how important this performance was to her. She presened herself as though she really was the fairy she was acting as and was very convincing. She proved to be very dynamic through the entire play, bravo to her. Despite everything done right, after the intermission the play moved very slowly. Max Robinson, playing Nick Bottom the Weaver, did keep the interest level up in the second half of the play. The ending didn’t deliver like the audience hoped it would; the actors placed too much emphasis on silence and less emphasis on the meaning of the character's actions that they were portraying. ]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:28:40 GMT