Arizona republican., 1902-06-05
THEATRICALs AT THE NORMAL
Synopsis of the Play Which Will Be
 Given Next Tuesday Evening.

The following is 9 synopsis Of "Fhe Midsummer Nights Dream drama which the territorial normal school l faculty and students will put on the stage next Tuesday evening, June 10. No pains have been spared either by the faculty or students to make th!@ play a great success. It will be the most elaborate entertainment ever stagoI by the normal school. Mle. Averill and Miss smith. who have wide reputation for the prepara ton oi school entertainments. are the mem 1 bers of the faculty who have had this 1 in charge. The best talent in the school i Niil take part. and about fifty students will make up the cast and chorus | The plct synopsis is as follows:
 The play opens with Theseus, duke i Of Athens. and Hippclyta, the Amazon cuecn. dream figures from songs of a past world. The first act represents Love thWarted. and sends the Athe nian lovers to the wood d league with cut the town. The second act sends to the same wood Bottom and his com rades to rehearse their play. Hernia 1 loves tysander and has her love re- turned. Helena loves Demetrius. who scOrns her. and rests his fancy upon l Hernia. But Lysander has not the i love of Hermias father. F,geus WHO accuses him to TAaseus and claims Dy all the laws of Athens that Y Hernia do not wed Demetrlus slie shall die. Lysander and Hermia lament their fate and agree to escape beyond bounds uf Athens and it's laws to a widow aunt Of Lysaude:'s in shelter of whose hC.ne they may be marrie,!. They tell their plan to Helena. who seeks to win favor from Demetrius by telling him the ploj
 which will send him also to the wood. Quince, the carpenter: Snug. the ' joiner; Bottom. the weaver: T7luue ! the bellcWs-nIender: Shout. the tinker and Starvline. the tailor. join their collective wit tc produce play that may ba chosen out of many to grace the wedding festival of Tneseus. They resolve to produce their interpretation Of the tale of "Pyramus and Thiste '" I3nd that they may not be 'dogged with company and their devices known they agree tG rehearse in the wood by moonlight.
 Fairies are swarming in the wood near Athens. Oberon and Titania are there with all their train to bless the house of Theseus cn his marriaga night. But Oberon is jealous of Ti
 tania's regard fer little changeling boy whose nother was Notarass of her order. Oberon bids Puck fetch him the flower whose juice works a spell upon the eyes it touches making them madly dCte upon the next live creature . they see. With this he will take play
 ful revenge upon his queen.
 Oberon. witness Of the slightad love of Helena will have some 0. the magic juice laid on Demetrius' eyes. Sung to rest by the fairies. Titania sleeps. Obercn charms her eyes. Weary Of wandering in the wood, Hernia and Lysander sleep. Puck charms by mis- take Lysanders eyes; he wakes to the sight of Helena and follows her, leaV- ing Hernia to wake and find herself alone.
 Bottom and his friends meet in the
 wood to rehearse their play. Puck furnishes Bottom with donkeys head. Titania waking becomes enamored of the donkey.
 Demetrius sleeps ana Puck repairs his error. Tho eyes of Demetrius ara charmed. and he wakes to the sight and lcve Of Helena. Nothing remains but
 to remove the spell upon Lysander'' eyes. and so restore him to the love of
 Hernia. They sleep and the charm is taken from I-ysander's eyes.
 Theseus and Hippoiyta are hunting
 in the wood. They come upon the
 sleeping levers and wake them with
 the huntsmen's horns.
 The play ends with the blessing of the fairies upon the house of ThoSauS