Wayne Hu as Demetrius in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Tri-State Actors Theater, the first professional production of the Bard ever presented in northern New Jersey. Directed by Paul Meacham, this production was very well received by critics and audience members alike.
A Midsuumer Night's Dream involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated still further by their entrance into the play's fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies (Oberon and Titania) reside and the impish folk character of Puck (Robin Goodfellow) plies his trade. Less subplot than a brilliant satirical device, another set of characters are Bottom the Weaver and his bumptious band of "rude mechanicals" who stumble into the main doings when they go into the same enchanted woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, their hilarious home-spun piece taking up Act V of Shakespeare's comedy.
