Get ready to experience Shakespeare like you never have before.
Key City Public Theatre is thrilled to present Dice: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the latest installment in Dacha Theatre‘s original Dice series, August 16-18 at Chetzemoka Park in Port Townsend.
In Dacha’s innovative format, an ensemble of actors memorizes the entire script of a Shakespeare show—and the roles are randomized at the start of each performance.
This year, Dice goes immersive and outdoors as the show inhabits beautiful Chetzemoka Park, following a run in Seattle. Watch the virtuosic ensemble embody a surprise role each night, while earnestly telling the full story of the play! No two casts are the same, and no two performances are remotely alike, so plan to come again and again.
Dice: A Midsummer Night’s Dream puts a playfully surreal twist on Shakespeare’s most magical comedy, with an audience roaming outdoors, fairy hive-minds hopping between actors’ bodies, and an enchanting underscoring by a live band.
In this raucous fantastical farce, a troupe of hapless artists sets out to put on the show of their lives, but rehearsal in the woods quickly gets out of hand when warring fairies and heartsick lovers stumble into play.
The Dice format produces a novel show experience every time, and has audiences raving:
“Based on the premise, you might expect a harried and unfinished production, but this show does not follow the rules of logic. There’s beautiful blocking and choreography, constant and clever improvisation, and characterization that rivals—even surpasses—Seattle Rep’s 2007 production of Twelfth Night. Somehow, they even pull off stage combat. This is magic.”
— The Stranger on Dacha’s 2017 production of Dice: Twelfth Night
Dice: A Midsummer Night’s Dream comes to Chetzemoka Park in Port Townsend August 16-18, in partnership with Key City Public Theatre. Tickets are available on a sliding scale, pay-what-you-wish basis for all performances, Fri – Sun at 6pm.
The show features a rotating cast, with seven out of ten ensemble members performing each night. Tickets are available online at kcpt.co/midsummer or at the park. Bring a chair or blanket. Golf cart transportation to the performance area is available at the main park gate beginning at 5:30pm.
