During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of major writers across generations, plus a few bonus episodes thrown in.

 

All of our readings are available to enjoy as full videos on our YouTube page but we’re also releasing them in audio form so they can be accessed through your favourite podcast app.

 

To celebrate two years since the beginning of Corona Cold Reads, our troupe reunited for a four-episode season of Shakespeare Reboots. We revisited four texts that we’d read together way back in early 2020, this time with all-new casts. To cap off our season, we returned to one of the most popular and goofy of all Shakespeare’s plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

 

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The Cast of Midsummer 2.0

Theseus/ Oberon – Shalyn Bass-McFaul

Hippolyta/ Titania- Rebbekah Vega-Romero

Egeus/ Peaseblossom- Saiya Floyd

Philostrate/ Puck- Scott Garland

Hermia- Miriam B

Demetrius- Michael Ross Albert

Lysander- Elizabeth Yvette Ramirez

Helena- Melissa Wright

Quince- Elizabeth Morriss

Bottom (Pyramus)- Christopher Prentice

Flute (Thisbe)- Anne van Leeuwen

Fairy- Shruti Kothari

Starveling (Moonshine)/ Mustardseed – Hilary Wartinger

Snout (Wall)/ Cobweb – Nicole Falgoust

Snug (Lion)/ Moth – Laura Hubbard