Midsummer in Newtown is the inspiring new film from acclaimed documentarian Lloyd Kramer and The Documentary Group that paints the most intimate of portraits of a New England town as its citizens deploy the power of art to push beyond one of the greatest tragedies in American history. In the aftermath of 2012's Sandy Hook tragedy, Kramer learned that a group of artists from New York were traveling to Newtown to work with kids from the local school system to mount an adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Realizing the potential of the story to investigate the power of art in facing tragedy, he set out to follow the journey of kids curiously exploring Shakespeare's language for the first time, bringing their own unique personalities to the text, and calling on their inner strength to band together and heal.
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