A Midsummer Night's Hangover

In A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S HANGOVER, two lovers must overcome the religious rigidity of the girl's father in order to be together. Inevitably, they must escape to the woods, fake their own deaths, and summon the devil himself for assitance. MIDSUMMER is a darkly comic world of magical realism inhabited by lonely dreamers, vengeful lovers, rabid feminists, assorted potions, and a statue that springs to life. As a compliment to his full length play, HEAVEN is a comedic one-act that imagines a crisis in heaven wherein God Himself is suffering from a creative block.

Emile Benoit is a writer and teacher living in California. He holds both B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy from San Diego State University. He is also the author of three books of existential philosophy in the litrary style: Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, The Artistic Perspective, and Beasts in Eden