A Midsummer Night's Play

Faeries dancing on a midsummer night's eve to the sounds of Enya drifting through the trees.

Our neighbors have the coolest tradition and thankfully invited us to participate! They put on a "Midsummer Night's Play" every year in June. It is the actual "play within the play" from a Midsummer Night's Dream. Their teenage daughter and her friends actually memorized their Shakespeare parts, and they helped her 10 year old brother and 6 year old sister to memorize their parts as well. They decorated their AMAZING backyard with lights and balloons, gave invitations to a bunch of the neighbors and planned all the music and costumes. They do this EVERY year! It was so magical, we all felt like little kids again! ( Memories of a Cinderella play surfacing for anyone?) All the neighborhood kids that came could be either a faerie or a lion. They came dressed up and played their small part, then when it's was over they all danced around the yard to the music for a good half hour. In the play they got to throw real rose petals from baskets on the "dead lovers" and to the audience. My girls were in girly HEAVEN.

The line up of the cast, getting ready to start.

Throwing Rose petals on the dead lovers.

Throwing rose petals on ME.

My sweet little Faerie princess.