Simon Studio Presents A Midsummer Ni..., William Shakespeare
Simon Studio Presents A Midsummer Ni..., William Shakespeare
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Simon Studio Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Best of the Comedy-O-Rama Hour, Season 8

Author: William Shakespeare, Roger Hendricks Simon

Narrator: Roger Hendricks Simon, a full cast, Joe Bevilacqua, Bobby Rae-Foley, Felix Diaz, Susan Kenney, David Lipson, Florence Regina, William Lewis Wexler

Unabridged: 1 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2013

Synopsis

Shakespeare’s lighthearted comedy of mistaken identity, tangled lovers, meddling fairies, and bumbling amateur actors set in a wood on Midsummer Night is vividly retold in this special live radio performance first broadcast on the Bard’s birthday, April 23, 1994, on WBAI-FM in New York City. This enchanting reinterpretation will delight both those who know and love the works of Shakespeare and those who have yet to discover them.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 (baptised) - April 23, 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the Bard of Avon. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

About Roger Hendricks Simon

Roger Hendricks Simon is the founder of Simon Studio, a radio, theater, and television production company. He has performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, and numerous others around the globe. He lives and works in New York City.

About Joe Bevilacqua

Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on March 15, 2020

There are lots of things about this play that please and impress me, but somehow I don't think it quite works. The best things about it are two scenes probably by Fletcher: the sympathetic portrait of Katharine of Aragon's self-defense and the dignified soliloquy of the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey aft......more

Goodreads review by James on January 17, 2020

Book Review 3 of 5 stars to Henry VIII, a play written in 1613 by William Shakespeare. This play originally had a different title and there is also some suspicion that it was co-written with another person at the time. It was towards the end of Shakespeare's career where while his brillia......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

I can't say that the writing is bad, per-se, more that the topic is unworthy except for being an obligatory propagandist piece to prop up the worthiness of the Anglican church versus the Catholics. I'm sure no one is surprised on this count. There's rather less of the real drama that surrounded the Ki......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 20, 2020

This was outrageously bad......more

Goodreads review by BJ on June 30, 2025

My last Shakespeare play! I read most of them back in 2021, but I never meant to be completist about it. “I’ll stop when I feel like stopping,” I told myself. As it turned out, when I felt like stopping was every single play short of Henry VIII. (Funnily enough, that pandemic Shakespeare moment is wh......more

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