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Sep 28, 2023 · “Four.” “Eight.” “Two.” “Seven.” 33 people gathered to present “In the Forests of the Night,” a play by Del Martin, immersing their audience in the forest, the game the characters play, and the unknown. Performances ran from Wed., Sept. 20 to Sat., Sept 23 in the Forbes Center Studio Theatre.
A Midsummer’s Night Dream, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1595–96. With its multilayered examination of love and its vagaries, it has long been one of the most popular of his plays. Learn about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, including its plot and characters.
- David Bevington
Like much farce, A Midsummer Night’s Dream relies heavily on misunderstanding and mistaken identity to create its humorous entanglements. Oberon’s unawareness of the presence of a second Athenian couple—Lysander and Hermia—in the forest enables Puck’s mistaken application of the flower’s juice.
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By turns disturbing and amusing, these and other examples of unreason in the play function to amplify the chaos and confusion traditionally associated with fairies and the forest. Reversal Situations transform quickly into their opposites throughout the play.
Jul 31, 2015 · Entire Play In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.
Set in an English town no larger than Stratford – the only Shakespeare play outside the Histories to be set in England – the play gathers to a conclusion in Windsor Forest, in which surreal comedy combines with romance at midnight to reinforce the sense that the forest is a place of magic and light hearts.
Oct 25, 2014 · A school trip gets messy when a mysterious forest appears in central London in this fantastical but somewhat middling Who effort.
