Hermia | In love with Lysander |
Helena | In love with Demetrius |
Demetrius | In love with Helena |
Lysander | In love with Hermia |
Hippolyta | Amazon queen |
Egeus | Hermia’s father |
Theseus | Duke of Athens |
Nick “Bottom” | A weaver |
Snout | A tinker |
Starveling | A tailor |
Robin | Servant to fairy king |
Cobweb | Fairy queen attendant |
Titania | Fairy queen |
Oberon | Fairy king |
Magical realm characters | Titania, Oberon, and Puck |
Mortal realm characters | Helena, Egeus, and Hermia |
Playwright | William Shakespeare |
Date written/performed | 1594-1596 |
Genre | Comedy |
Green (reviewer) described directing style | “high spirits and communitarian pageantry” |
Green (reviewer) described production style | “neither modern or period in style” |
Green (reviewer) described set design | “dominated by three enormous mossy trees, revolving platforms and woodland slide” |
Scheck (reviewer) described costume design | “aggressively colorful costumes, varying wildly in style” |
Scheck (reviewer) described directing | “infused the proceedings with a madcap, musical-theater atmosphere” |
Pyramus & Thisbe | a play within the play |
Lysander’s line | “For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.” |
Hermia’s line | “O, then, what graces in my love do dwell that he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!” |
Nick’s line | “I grant you friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us.” |
Oberon’s line | ” Come, my queen, take hands with me, and rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.” |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 22, 2019