SCENE BREAKDOWN
(times are approximate)
7:00 Check-in (Mendelssohn background music playing)
2 faeries in bushes speaking in 'faerie' language to passersby
Check-in faeries give audience programs
13 participants get paperwork, costume bits, prop pieces
Audience mills around entry & waiting areas
7:30 Action Begins - Story Set-up (15)
Lysander composes a poem for Hermia
Hermia walks in on him
Demetrius walks in composing a poem to Hermia
Helena walks in on him
Hermia & Lysander re: how Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius but Hermia says her dad will never make her do it - cares too much about her happiness
Demetrius brags about how he has ensured Egeus will convince Hermia to marry him; instructs Helena to leave him alone - Helena says she is Demetrius' spaniel
Duke commences festivities' official begininning
Puck eavesdrops - decides Oberon should get involved - brainswashes Duke into saying as much
7:45 Audience is Seated (1st course served)
8:00 Entrée (Background Music, Tchaikovsky)
8:15 Main Show (15/30)
Titania & Oberon arrive
Fight over changeling boy
Puck intro Oberon to Duke
Puck fills Oberon in on murder and malfeasance, Oberon wants details
Background on Lovers
Entertainment while Oberon thinks
8:30 Death of Hooh
Oberon Takes Charge - tries to solve murder(s)
8:45 Break (Background Music)
Dessert & Coffee
9:00 Detective Spiel by Titania
Motives
Weapon
Opportunity
9:10 Accusations
Clues revealed by participants
9:20 Audience Vote (Background Music)
Collect answers
Pantomime
9:30 Denoument
additional deaths
Re-enactment by faeries
Prizes
9:40 The End
Bow, Thanks, Next Show announced
9:45-10 Guests Depart (Background Music)