![]() “Awesome way to encourage an appreciation of Shakespeare” -Educator “Their comedic sense and timing was spot on! The language was very understandable and they made the play modern without compromising the language.” -Educator They put it on the students to comment on how relevant Shakespeare is today– great interaction!” – Educator ![]() Students understand the action of the play much better by seeing it performed. “The actors had valuable comments about symbolism, portrayal of characters, and themes of the play. “I connected with Helena in the sense that I wish I had more self esteem and confidence, and sometimes find myself doing things that other people want me to do for them, instead of doing what I want to do.” – 8th grader In the forest outside of Athens, mishaps abound and hilarity ensues as young lovers, mischievous fairies and the forces of nature collide.” “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Love, in all its forms, is at the center of Shakespeare’s most magical play. The eight actors taking on multiple roles as the as the lines between worlds, characters, actors and audience begin to blur. Classic Repertory Company dives in headfirst, creating a piece with live music and a contemporary twist. Midsummer Rose was exhibited at Outo Olo, in January 2021.įor more information: of Shakespeare’s most loved classics comes to life in this fast-paced, wacky and whimsical production. Lastly, some obvious references are donkkarihattu (because nostalgia, beautiful losers, youth) and the idea of a magician lifting something unexpected from the hat – such as midsummer rose. It’s tacky yet a pretty and romantic view. The poem itself has been used in many songs or yoga /zen/zodiac sign lifestyle blogs and it’s about dreaming so far, that eventually you will dream yourself to the moment where you are now. It’s as a spell that refers to a time we have lost and that we can’t regain (or will we…) This sentence is from Alan Watt’s speech( or poem idk what to call it). Inside my Fairfarren piece, there’s a short phrase saying “Let’s have a Dream which isn’t under control”, another reference to madness. And “Fairfarren” is the last word he whispers to Alice, just before vanishing – yet it’s the first time Alice truly understands the Mad hatter’s odd language. So some say that in the Alice story, the mad hatter is a reference to this illness, that the magical world that the mad hatter is talking throughout the story is only in his head – his world is somewhere between magic and madness. ![]() The origin of the Mad Hatter name comes from the illness called Erethism, or the so called “mad hatter syndrome”: Apparently the hat makers aka craftsmen who were making hats back in the days, went crazy simply because they were using very poisonous mercury in the hat making process. The word is said by the character called Mad Hatter. The name Fairfarren, that comes directly from the story of Alice and the wonderland, means Farewell (or “good journeying” /”fare far then”). Susan Ploetz’s work Skinship: Touching Intelligence is a LARP in which participants play alien, sensing creatures exploring their surroundings, objects and beings in a strange new land. The booklet accompanying the exhibition features Feminist Culture House’s contribution, a cocktail recipe that was conceptualised for those foraging and making infusions during midsummer 2020. Composer Malibu has put together an exclusive ambience mix for the exhibition, which can be heard from outside the gallery and online here. Man Yau will show a new ceramic work Fairfarren that will, as if by magic, let the rosebush thrive and prosper. Midsummer Rose is exercise, meditation, protest, and exodus.įor this occasion, Lukas Malte Hoffman and Susan Kooi have invited a group of artists and arts workers to present their work. At the end of the exhibition, when the last petal falls, the spell will be broken. This setting allows us to travel back to the summer of 2020 on a small and safe scale, protected like a rose inside a dome. Greenhouse lights installed in the gallery recreate the day-night rhythm of the midsummer period and shine light through the window onto the winter street. “The exhibition Midsummer Rose is centered around a juhannusruusu rosebush (Rosa pimpinellifolia) whose cream-white flowers appear commonly around midsummer in Finland.
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