Midsummers Nights Dream Critical Review
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Drama Critical Review:
Midsummer's Nights Dream:
By: Samantha Deacon
A Midsummer's Nights Dream is a famous Shakespearian play. It is a story about two young men who are in love with the same women, but the young women only loves one of them and her father believes she should marry the one she does not love. However, the young women's friend is also in love with the same man that her friend is. So during the course of 'trying to have what you want,' the consequences and the magic that is around them, all seems like a dream in the end.
As there can be various versions of A Midsummer's Nights Dream, as it quite a versatile play, you can change things around within it to suit the setting, the time period the number of characters, etc, depending on what the director wants to do with it.
There were seven people in this particular version, done by an English touring group, of A Midsummer's Nights Dream. These seven people had to play two or three characters, but all parts were distributed evenly, all actors had a major part along with either one or two smaller parts, for example the actress playing Hermia also played a part as a fairy and as Francis Flute one of the actors in the craftsmen's play at the end of the play. All the characters were used and all of them had to relevant, as the play would not have made much sense if they were not. However, it is quite demanding to take on so many roles at once, which made it even more magnificent that they could achieve to do so.
All the characters have a particular personality to portray and all actors kept in the character they were playing the whole time...