KHC is very proud that we are able to partner with the University of Calgary to bring the Teen Ensemble of the 52nd Street Project to Golden this week to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They arrive in town on Wednesday evening and will be rehearsing and taking in the sights before the show in the Civic Centre this Friday evening… it’s all free and the curtain goes up at 7pm sharp.
You can see the amazing work that the 52nd Street Project is doing with children and youth on their website here. Or link to t
his brochure on their Canadian tour to Calgary and Golden.
When 52nd Street Project got in touch with us a few months ago, they introduced themselves… “We work with kids 
from the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in New York City aged 10 to 18. Our focus is on theater, but we do many other programs with them and it’s all free. “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the show we’re bringing to Canada, is a production of our Teen Ensemble. The Ensemble is a two-year program that gives our teens conservatory-style training in acting and theater in general. The final, full-length Shakespeare show tour that each new Ensemble undertakes is simultaneously a pinnacle achievement and a reward for their two years of work.
From Wikipedia: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
