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Charlotte, NC - Epic Arts Repertory Theatre and its members won numerous awards at the recent 2007 - 2008 MTA Awards : Outstanding Original Musical (Tie) A Mad, Mad Madrigal – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre A Midsummer Night's Musical – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor – Male Stan Peal (Bottom/Pyramus)   A Midsummer Night's Musical – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Cameo Performance Stan Peal (The Minstrel)   A Mad, Mad Madrigal – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Musical Composition Stan Peal   A Mad, Mad Madrigal – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Special Technical Effect Drew Nowlin Description: puppet design   A Midsummer Night's Musical – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Stan Peal won an additional award for outstanding set design for "The Pillowman" with Actors Theatre of Charlotte : Outstanding Set Design Stan Peal   The Pillowman – Actor's Theatre of Charlotte read more

“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S MUSICAL” Adapted and Directed by Laura Depta  -  Original Music by Stan Peal Charlotte, NC – Charlotte’s very own Epic Arts Repertory Theatre presents the premiere of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Musical’ this June at Spirit Square.  Director, Laura Depta, has skillfully adapted and gently updated some of Shakespeare's more archaic language creating a text with all of the beauty and poetry of Shakespeare but more easily heard and understood by the modern audience member.  Original music by Stan Peal adds the finishing flair to this sexy, mystical, fairyland fantasy about the whim of passion and the power of love. This original Epic Arts Repertory Theater production stays faithful to Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, how the lovers’ lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and of course, the whimsical nature of love and how they are all finally brought together rightly, thanks in part, to the mischievous work of Puck. It’s a saucy rendition of love lost and found, and perfect Summer fare! “I endeavored to weed out and update some of the more archaic language to make the original script more accessible and understandable to a wide audience. I’ve maintained rhyming couplets and been pretty faithful to the iambic pentameter, so it will still sound and feel like Shakespeare, except that now the audience will understand so much more of what’s actually being said!” , Says Depta. ..... read more