A Midsummer Night’s Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts – between city and country, reason and imagination, love and infatuation.
Play:
Music and opening announcement 1:21
Act 1 Scene 1 6:20
Act 1 Scene 1: LYSANDER How now my love, why is your cheek so pale?
5:11
Act 1 Scene 1: HELENA How happy some o’er other some can be! 1:51
Musical interlude 0:49
Act 1 Scene 2 6:05
Musical interlude 1:06
Act 2 Scene 1 2:50
Act 2 Scene 1: OBERON Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania! 4:43
Act 2 Scene 1: OBERON Well, go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove
2:20
Act 2 Scene 1: DEMETRIUS I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
3:10
Act 2 Scene 1: OBERON I know a bank where the wild thyme blows 1:09
Musical interlude 1:43
Act 2 Scene 2 4:50
Act 2 Scene 2: PUCK Through the forest have I gone... 1:12
Act 2 Scene 2: HELENA Stay though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius! 3:32
Act 2 Scene 2: HERMIA Help me Lysander, Help me! 1:08
Closing music 1:49
Opening music 0:50
Act 3 Scene 1 7:29
Act 3 Scene 1: BOTTOM I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of
me 5:16
Act 3 Scene 2 2:14
Act 3 Scene 2: DEMETRIUS O, why rebuke you him that loves you so? 2:38
Act 3 Scene 2: OBERON What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken... 1:44
Act 3 Scene 2: LYSANDER Why should you think that I should woo... 3:52
Act 3 Scene 2: HELENA Lo, she is one of this confederacy 8:41
Act 3 Scene 2: OBERON This is thy negligence. Still thou mistak’st...
7:15
Closing music 0:58
Opening music 1:05
Act 4 Scene 1 2:52
Act 4 Scene 1: OBERON Welcome good Robin. 4:45
Act 4 Scene 1: THESEUS Go, one of you, find out the forester... 5:21
Act 4 Scene 1: BOTTOM When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer
1:44
Musical interlude 0:49
Act 4 Scene 2 3:05
Musical interlude 1:34
Act 5 Scene 1 5:28
Act 5 Scene 1: PHILOSTRATE So please your grace, the Prologue... 15:13
Act 5 Scene 1: PUCK Now the hungry lion roars 1:05
Act 5 Scene 1: OBERON Through the house give glimmering light 1:29
Act 5 Scene 1: PUCK If we shadows have offended...
Music and closing announcements
Cast:
Theseus, Duke of Athens – Jack Ellis
Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons – Karen Archer
Lysander, in love with Hermia – Benjamin Soames
Demetrius, suitor to Hermia – Jamie Glover
Hermia, in love with Lysander – Cathy Sara
Helena, in love with Demetrius – Emily Raymond
Oberon, King of the Fairies – Michael Maloney
Titania, Queen of the Fairies – Sarah Woodward
Puck, in the service of Oberon – Ian Hughes
Quince, a carpenter – John Moffatt
Bottom, a weaver – Warren Mitchell
Flute, a bellows-mender – Peter Kenny
Snout, a tinker – Don McCorkindale
Snug, a joiner/Egeus, father of Hermia – David Timson
Starveling, a tailor/Philostrate, Master of the Revels – John Rye
Peaseblossom, fairy attending on Titania – Emma Lindars
Cobweb, fairy attending on Titania – Sophie Nakhimoff
Moth, fairy attending on Titania – Laura Sheldon
Mustardseed, fairy attending on Titania – Dominic Kraemer
Fairy, in the service of Titania – Daisy Donovan
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