Shakespeare4All Gala Performance: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Theatre
Description
Description
Written between 1590 and 1596, A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins with the Duke Theseus, happily preparing for his wedding to Hippolyta, when he is interrupted by Egeus a noble lord, and his daughter Hermia. Egeus is preparing for her to marry Demetrius who is besotted with Hermia but she loves Lysander. Demetrius however, once loved but broke the heart of Helena who is still infatuated with him.
Egeus insists that Theseus enforces the laws of Athens upon his daughter to marry the man that he has chosen. Hermia refuses and plans to run away into the forest with her beloved Lysander. She tells her friend Helena of their plan who then tells Demetrius with the hope of gaining some affection for this information. The lovers all end up in the forest together and unknowingly become entangled in an argument between the King and Queen of the fairies.
Oberon the King overpowers Titania the Queen in her sleep with the help of his young servant Puck, to fall in love with the first thing she sees which happens to be the big headed leader of a group of amateur actors who are in the forest practicing a play to perform before the Duke on his wedding day. Oberon takes pity upon Helena and tells the young Puck to use the same magic flower on Demetrius. Puck gets the young lovers mixed up and plants the juice in Lysander’s eyes and a comedy of errors ensues.
Eventually Oberon releases Titania from the spell after gaining the prize he desires and also releases the spell over the young lovers who return to Kyoto to try to make sense of the magical yet strange dream that they all had.
Love, action, celebration, confusion and humor are the ingredients for this unforgettable spell or is it just simple, A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Director：Shiona Carson
Set and Lighting Designer：Andrew Ritchie
Stage Manager：Oscar Fung
Make-up：Leena Lempinen
Details of other production units are only available in Chinese
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Drama Yearbook 2014" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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