仲夏恶作剧

摄影：Christopher McKenzie

忘了仙女的翅膀吧。 In the 经典剧目剧团 (CRC) production of Shakespeare’s 《仲夏夜之梦, costumes, lighting, and sets are nearly nonexistent. 身着牛仔裤的八名演员（大多是非洲金融共同体校友）一直留在舞台上，随着鼓点的节奏在角色和场景之间转换。 仲夏 充满了转变（从蔑视到爱情，从朋友到敌人，令人难忘的是，一个普通人变成了一个仙女女王的驴头情人），而CRC的极简主义美学强调了这一主题，激励演员和观众通过想象来重塑空间。

“你要回到最基本的问题——这些人是谁，他们在做什么？”” says Celia Pain (’13), who plays the mischievous sprite Puck and is education and advocacy coordinator for CRC, the flagship educational outreach program of the 新剧目剧院 (New Rep) in Watertown, Massachusetts. Pain和她的同事们将古典和现代文学的舞台改编带到新英格兰地区的学校和社区，包括那些在艺术方面得不到充分服务的学校和社区。

“Not only does our accessible approach to the material hopefully give them new insight into or love for these texts, but I think it’s really good for these kids to see that we went to school for something we are passionate about, that school can be 有趣的,” she says.

这是CRC与波士顿大学合作的第一年，这是一个旨在帮助应届毕业生跨入专业戏剧领域的桥梁项目。 “It builds their confidence, it builds their stamina, it builds their résumé,” says 吉姆Petosa, New Rep’s artistic director and the director of the 美术学院 School of Theatre, “and it gives them that important thing that an actor always needs: an audience to engage.”