Secrets add mystery to a midsummer night

 The River’s Edge Theatre Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is unconventional by 21st-century standards, in that it adheres to some practices of the 16th century, when it was written.

The twists involve restrictions placed upon the 12 cast members, who had to create, not purchase, their own costumes and props and who had one rehearsal as a group before their first performance. 

The result will unfold this weekend — Saturday, July 20, and Sunday, July 21, at 4 and 7 p.m. — at the Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, under the direction of Jessica Irons, artistic director of Theater O in Ossining.