A Midsummer Night's Lea.Lea DeLaria scatted in On the Town, played a doomed motorcycle daddy in The Rocky Horror Show horror show n. Informal 1. A situation or example of great horror. 2. Something provoking great dismay or disgust: The basement was a horror show after the sleepover party. and crooned cool jazz on two well-regarded CDs. Now she's doing Shakespeare, in out director Tina Landau's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and , at the Paper Mill Playhouse Paper Mill Playhouse is a regional theatre located in Millburn, New Jersey, less than 25 miles away from Manhattan. Due to its location, it can draw from the pool of actors (and audience members) who live in New York City. through May 21. DeLaria plays Bottom, the buffoonish workman WORKMAN. One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another. 2. The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has undertaken to do; to do it in proper time; to do it well to employ the things furnished him according to his contract. who winds up in a spell, making love to a fair] queen. Shakespeare wrote Bottom as a man. but for DeLaria the gender-bending was easy. "What I've come up with is that Bottom's a woman passing as a man," DeLaria said in an interview. "I'm not surprised I keep getting cast in masculine roles. I'm like Bottom, in that I feel like I can do anything." Unlike Bottom, she apparently knows what she's talking about. |
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