A Midsummer
Night's Dream

October 2004

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare's strangest and most delightful creations. It involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated by their entrance into the fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies live.

Another set of characters - Bottom the weaver and his bumptious band of "rude mechanicals" - stumble into the main doings when they go into the same enchanted woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe.