A literally groundbreaking production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opens at Summerhill Winery July 21 2009.

Shakespeare Kelowna is teaming up with the winery once again to present one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies. Together they’ve built a new stage among the vineyards overlooking Okanagan Lake – the perfect backdrop for mischievous fairies wreaking havoc on love-struck mortals in the forest.
Director Stephen Jefferys has assembled a talented cast that’s been rehearsing this magical tale for months. His last show at the winery, Much Ado About Nothing in 2007, was a critical triumph and a box-office hit.

“Perhaps the themes of love and imagination make ‘The Dream’ one of Shakespeare’s most enduring and enchanting plays,” Jefferys said. “There is the mature love of Theseus and Hippolyta; the more frantic, passionate and unstable love of the young people, the power struggle between Oberon and Titania, and the tragic outcome of Pyramus and Thisbe in the play-within-the-play. “As for imagination, do we want to believe that it is magic or reason that controls our lives? On a warm summer’s evening in Summerhill Winery, entranced by this play with the backdrop of the lake, the vineyard and mountains of the Okanagan, I suggest that you will want to choose magic.”