It is a fanciful play, almost entirely of Shakespeare's own invention, though the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is from Ovid, one of Shakespeare's favorite authors. Yet it is apparent from the outset the CSC team doesn't entirely trust the playwright to ...

Fort Bend Theatre presents "The Fantasticks," June 1 - June 16 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Loosely based on the combination of “Romeo and Juliet,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “Pyramis and Thisbe,” this ...

Another special moment came on Saturday when our very own Vickie Bottelson (of Wren of Iniquity) and Mike Goodclick (Thisbe) were officially engaged, with the blessing of Queen Elizabeth herself.  It was a beautiful and moving ceremony ...

An additional side story tells the tale of the Mechanicals, laboring class amateur actors who resolve to perform "Pyramus and Thisbe" for Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding, where these two stories become one. All the while, Oberon and Titania ...

"As the Toyota grew, more and more men and visitors popped their heads into the hall to see if the rumours were true," Tjanpi co-ordinator Thisbe Purich writes in a recently published book, Tjanpi Desert Weavers. "Many a man offered to put an engine in it ...

Mr. Skybell describes Bottom's dream with sweetly wide-eyed bemusement, after which he and his fellow "rude mechanicals" enact "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe," Shakespeare's brutal parody of a rustic staging of a ...

He maintains the comedy of the play's "Mechanicals," the characters who put on an awful version of "Pyramus and Thisbe." In Adrian's version, a group of homeless men put on a show inspired by a "Soylent Green," a 1973 science-fiction movie that ...

Many a patron wandered into the guild yard, "looking for that Midsummer play."  Also popular was the daily production of Pyramus and Thisbe.  One unique thing about Pyramus is the fact that no two of the first 12 performances of this play have had the same cast. 

These amateur dramatists venture into the woods to rehearse their terrible but hilarious version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe to entertain at Duke Theseus’(Charles Thomas) wedding to Hippolyta(Nina Warriner). Tickets are being offered to all students ...