Midsummer's Tale: A Romantic Comedy

Lake Yew Summer Arts Festival is in for a bumpy ride when L.A. director Jackson Stockade descends on tiny Hester College in rural North Carolina to direct the summer Shakespeare play.

Stockade threatens a theatrical revolution when he proposes a hard rock version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. However, the resident Shakespearean scholar, Professor Howard March, has his heart set on a traditional production.

Stockade and March find themselves cast as rivals.

Frederick Van Patten lives with his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before writing fiction, he spent his creative currency on the theatre writing and directing for many years in the Bay Area. His plays have been produced on the West Coast. He is the author of the two-part family chronicle, The Deep Road, and the mystery novel, The 13th Notebook.