A Midsummer Night's Dream (EN)

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 Act4 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