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The Play:
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.
The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.
The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.
When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.
Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.
Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.
Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.
The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies
Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.
Some related scenes:
•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.
•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.
•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.
•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.
Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.
Some related scenes:
•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.
•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.
•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.
•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.
•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.
Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.
Some related scenes:
•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.
•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.
•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.
Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.
Some related scenes:
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.
•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.
Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).
•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.
Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.
“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”
Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.
The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.
The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.
When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.
Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.
Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.
Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.
The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies
Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.
Some related scenes:
•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.
•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.
•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.
•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.
Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.
Some related scenes:
•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.
•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.
•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.
•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.
•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.
Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.
Some related scenes:
•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.
•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.
•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.
Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.
Some related scenes:
•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.
•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.
Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).
•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.
Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.
“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”
Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)
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