{"id":374,"date":"2023-12-20T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidfoubert.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2023-12-27T03:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T03:40:58","slug":"morristown-green-longs-for-a-dvd-of-davids-performance-in-midwinter-nights-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidfoubert.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Morristown Green longs for a DVD of David’s performance in “Midwinter Night’s Dream”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The “re-seasoned” production of “Midwinter Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is bringing laughter and joy to families and theatre lovers across New Jersey, and a front-page review has come in celebrating David’s performance as Nick Bottom. You can catch all of his antics through December 31 – visit ShakespeareNJ.org<\/a> for tickets and information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“To paraphrase that great Shakespearean scholar Wayne Gretzky, watch where Puck is going to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how swiftly Billie Wyatt<\/strong> skates and dances and bounds across the stage. This mischievous bundle of gleeful abandon really should be named Blur. A five-year STNJ veteran (The Rose Tattoo, The Metromaniacs, A Child\u2019s Christmas in Wales<\/em>), Wyatt lights up every scene she is in; her only rival on the laugh meter is David Foubert <\/strong>as Nick Bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foubert\u2019s decade with the company includes Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter\u2019s Tale <\/em>and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPOILER ALERT!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foubert\u2019s \u201cdeath\u201d scene in the play-within-the-play begs for a DVD at the merch table. You\u2019ll want to watch it over and over.<\/p>\nKevin Coughlin, MorristownGreen.com, “\u2018A Midwinter Night\u2019s Dream\u2019: Fasten your sleigh-belts in Madison”, December 19 2023<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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David Foubert and the Mechanicals in “A Midwinter Night’s Dream”. Photo by Avery Brunkus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “re-seasoned” production of “Midwinter Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is bringing laughter and joy to families and theatre lovers across New Jersey, and a front-page review has come in celebrating David’s performance as Nick Bottom. 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