* Walking Around In A Dream * at Toronto Fringe Festival June 30 to July 12, 2026
Unspoken Theatre Company, with Toronto Fringe Festival, is proud to present
Walking Around in A Dream, Or, Gentlemen Prefer Maypoles by Natalie Kaye
Walking Around in a Dream is a meta-theatrical musical screwball comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is set in Prohibition-era Chicago and features flappers, gangsters, bootleggers, and moonshiners. The script is written in vibrant and bubbly jazz-age vernacular, often retaining the rhyme schemes used in the Shakespearean source.
The heightened language has been researched extensively for authenticity’s sake, a process involving the detailed construction of a 50-page 1920’s era slang dictionary. The play teaches the audience a language, replicating the magical time travelling experience of watching Shakespeare for the first time, learning a familiar but strange language through stage craft.
Shakespeare’s Dream exhibits a world of madcap love affairs, infidelity, and rash decisions which speaks to the joie de vivre of the 1920's - a time when the world was still reeling from the devastation of the first world war, and was determined on careless enjoyment.
Written by award-winning playwright, Natalie Kaye, one of the co-writers of #1 Clown Comedy With Victor & Priscilla at Toronto Fringe 2025, which featured sold out shows and was called "hilarious" in the Toronto Star.
Co-produced by Nina Kaye and Aaliya Alibhai
More Details Soon!
Walking Around in A Dream, Or, Gentlemen Prefer Maypoles by Natalie Kaye
Walking Around in a Dream is a meta-theatrical musical screwball comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is set in Prohibition-era Chicago and features flappers, gangsters, bootleggers, and moonshiners. The script is written in vibrant and bubbly jazz-age vernacular, often retaining the rhyme schemes used in the Shakespearean source.
The heightened language has been researched extensively for authenticity’s sake, a process involving the detailed construction of a 50-page 1920’s era slang dictionary. The play teaches the audience a language, replicating the magical time travelling experience of watching Shakespeare for the first time, learning a familiar but strange language through stage craft.
Shakespeare’s Dream exhibits a world of madcap love affairs, infidelity, and rash decisions which speaks to the joie de vivre of the 1920's - a time when the world was still reeling from the devastation of the first world war, and was determined on careless enjoyment.
Written by award-winning playwright, Natalie Kaye, one of the co-writers of #1 Clown Comedy With Victor & Priscilla at Toronto Fringe 2025, which featured sold out shows and was called "hilarious" in the Toronto Star.
Co-produced by Nina Kaye and Aaliya Alibhai
More Details Soon!
