"A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Portland Center Stage

As the royals prepare to marry, four young lovers from flee to the forest after parental disapproval. But in the woods, their lives are complicated when they cross paths with feuding faerie royalty. When a group of local rustics rehearsing a play for the Athens wedding also seek the quiet of the forest, the spells and confusions wrought Shakespeare at his most magical and most imaginative, and with a little enchantment, as Puck says “all is mended.”