We're not trying to a make a statement on sexual politics. It would be easy to do that in this play, but it's not what we're going for. Every character in this play is pretty much a caricature.

When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty.

Not physically, just mentally and all the pressure and all the questions coming in and the thoughts, trying to get all the stuff out of my head. It was tough. The first game's out of the way.

In a low-budget, amateur production of one of the most popular and performed plays of all times ... if you're not going to do something different with it, you're not going to do it justice. We're going for a very big, stylized, in-your-face style just to see what people think about it. We're trying to show people a Midsummer they've never seen before.

I really liked the idea of including the music because it gives it sort of an ambience and it gives us a world in a way that costumes and lights and stuff can't.

This is just another case of law enforcement trying to intimidate someone for their political views.