Orlando Shakes’ high-profile production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Lake Eola Park is more than the theater’s first in-person show in more than a year: It’s the first Orlando-area play to be approved by Actors’ Equity Association, or AEA, the New York-based union for professional performers and stage managers.
It’s a significant step — Equity has been extremely cautious in its approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led last summer to a public feud with Walt Disney World, where many of its Central Florida members work. And it wasn’t easy for Orlando Shakes to get the union’s stamp of approval. Among the requirements: 30 pages of documentation about all aspects of the production and the addition of a special union-approved safety monitor.
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