Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Midsumer Night's Dream Group Pieces

We got an assignment   we had to be in groups, piece we are focusing  on the Classical play written by William Shakespeare A Midsomer Night'sc Dream. The adaptation we are doing to it is A play within a play within a play. To get a few tips I watched " Were The World Mines!" I thought it was very usefull, and I could see our piece based around the theme, even though this is all about Magic and other things I believe we can really adapt to it. So they are errors to be made within the script.
The sonnet itself was formly written in 1590. The character I am portraying is called Hippolya
 " Queen of the  Amazons". My character is married to Theseus king of Amazons"
Within the play it has three mager parts Hippolyta and Teseus Marriage delebration and then  the first scene opens by Hermia refusing to Marry Demitrius.
At that same time, Quince and his fellow players were engaged to produce an act which is "the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe", for the Duke and the Duchess.[2]Peter Quince reads the names of characters and bestows them to the players. Nick Bottom who is playing the main role of Pyramus, is over-enthusiastic and wants to dominate others by suggesting himself for the characters of Thisbe, The Lion and Pyramus at the same time. Also he would rather be a tyrant and recites some lines of Ercles or Hercules. Quince ends the meeting with "at the Duke's oak we meet.

The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius does not love Hermia any more, Theseus overrules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream. After they all exit, Bottom awakes, and he too decides that he must have experienced a dream "past the wit of man". In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the six workmen perform Pyramus and Thisbe. The play is badly performed to the point where the guests laugh as if it were meant to be a comedy, and afterward everyone retires to bed. Afterward, Oberon, Titania, Puck, and other fairies enter, and bless the house and its occupants with good fortune. After all other characters leave, Puck "restores amends" and reminds the audience that this might be nothing but a dream (hence the name of the play).

I have done this play myself when I was small in Primary School, The stoiryline to it is just magical and iut really captures the eye of the audiences.

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