Quintessence Queer Affinity Night – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Join Quintessence Producing Artistic Director, Alex Burns, for a meet-and-greet and complimentary cocktail after the show. No extra charge for the gathering. If you’d like to attend as a group of 10 or more, call the Box Office at 215-987-4450 for group ticket discounts. 

Four Athenian youths reject their parents’ efforts to interfere in their romantic lives and choose to run away instead of facing the love-limiting laws of the land. Lost in the surrounding wilderness the lovers stumble upon a fairy kingdom in conflict; a spat between the fairy king and queen so great it threatens to alter the earth’s orbit and suspend its seasons. A group of laborers secretly rehearsing their play for a royal competition also wander unwittingly into the middle of the fairy battle. Mayhem ensues and Shakespeare confirms we can all prove an ass when in love.