Synopsis

About "A Midsummer Night's Dream"...

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Shakespeare weaves together the stories of three groups- the Athenian lovers, the workmen and the fairies- in one of his most well-loved and romantic comedies.
The play opens four days before Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to be married. However, preparations for the wedding are interrupted when a gentleman named Egeus asks the Duke to force his daughter, Hermia, into marrying Demetrius. Since Hermia is in love with Lysander, of whom her father disapproves, they decide to run away... But they are pursued by Demetrius, who is in turn followed by Helena, a girl he previously dumped for Hermia.
However, there is trouble brewing in the woods...Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies are quarreling, and eventually Oberon orders his servant, Puck, to enchant Titania while she sleeps, so the next thing she sees, she falls in love with. Seeing Demetrius reject Helena, Oberon feels sorry for her and orders Puck to enchant him too. Things don’t quite go to plan, though...
Since the Duke has announced that the group chosen to performs a play at his wedding will be generously paid, a group of workmen are rehearsing in the woods. But their preparations are interrupted by the mischievous Puck, who enchants the leading man to have the appearance of a donkey’s head!
Chaos reigns in the forest, as the enchantment of the love-juice causes absolute mayhem! Will the lovers be reunited? Will the fairy King and Queen be reconciled? And will the workmen’s play go ahead after all?
All will be revealed in the show-stopping finale of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”!

By Emma (Hermia)