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From Act One, Scene Two of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, choose a character who you would like to have performed. Say in detail how this character should be played, taking into consideration such things as voice, movement, gesture, position and facial expr
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From Act One, Scene Two of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', choose a character who you would like to have performed. Say in detail how this character should be played, taking into consideration such things as voice, movement, gesture, position and facial expressions ... Midsummer Night's Dream has a complicated story with several sub-plots. One of the sub-plots, a play inside the play, is written by the carpenter Peter Quince to be performed on the wedding day of Theseus Duke of Athens and his new wife Hippolyta. The other actors in Quince's play are to be from his group of friends who are all working men like him. In Shakespeare's day, skilled workers such as carpenters and weavers were called 'mechanicals'. None of the group had any experience of acting or any skill either. The part that I would choose to play is that of Bottom. We learn more about him than most...
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