Still Dreaming

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Audience Member I saw this at the 2015 Cleveland International Film Festival. The previous year I saw Caesar Must Die at the same festival in which Italian prisoners rehearse and stage a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. This doc is in the same vein with retirees from showbiz professions living at a nursing home rehearsing and staging a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In this play within a film we meet the pair of legit Broadway directors who have agreed to lead this enrichment activity. Learning of the backgrounds of a handful of the performers at the Lillian Booth Actors Home is uplifting. These are folks who had successful careers onstage and backstage. Some are family members of people who worked in showbiz, so they are not as comfortable with performing. Yet, they are all here to prove that they can still entertain a crowd. Pianist Joan Stein impresses. Charlotte Fairchild as Puck steals the show. Dimo Condos as Oberon shows that it doesn't matter what the setting is or what age the performers are. In theater some things are constant like the diva actor who tries to take the reins from the director. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a particularly fitting play, as the director's discuss, since the characters talk much about memory and what is real and what is a dream. With several members of the cast facing problems with their memory here in the later years of their lives as well as the normal conflicting personalities inherent in working as a group like this, the backstage dramatics are as intriguing as Shakespeare's ever relevant words. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Still Dreaming

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