A Midsummer’s Night Dream: A review

A midsummers Night stargaze is bingle of Shakespe bes just about popular comedies. There are thousands of versions of the command originated from in truth incompatible interpretations of the text. In this particular adaptation, the director, Joan Ollé, opted to revolve around on the theme of the amativeness and the funny side of the play. The sexiness is mainly represented by hockey puck and Titania and Bottom. Pucks movements are very sensual and sexual as well. He is represented as a promiscuous character, very extrovert and with no shame. The family relationship of Titania and Bottom is much(prenominal) eroticized too. Titania is represented as a voluptuous fair sex and Bottom is dressed with a red velvet drape and smoking a cigar, which make me think of Hugh Hefner and integrity of his pillage girls. The funny side of the play is repayd specially by the workers, who speak in a very informal way, with opposite accents from different parts of Catalonia, and perfor ming in a obtuse way. I think that one of the key funny moments is when they save the appearance _or_ semblance dressed as setback White and the dwarfs. \nI do non think that the characters have been modified very much. It is true, though, that Demetrius and Lysander assureed junior than what I expected them to be. Moreover, one of them carries a scooter and they weaken a skirt and shorts, which is what footling boy wears. Comparing them to the girls, they look older than they, and their clothes reinforce that aspect, since they wear transparent or revealing dresses. Puck is to a greater extent sexualized than in the text, and in slightly scene it looked as if he was in some considerate of relationship with Oberon, but it was not very clear. Gender political sympathies are not unfeignedly made evident in this version since the director cute to focus more on other aspects. However, I bemused the strength of Hyppolita. In Shakespeares text there is a slight resistance t o link up from Hyppolitas part that was not very represented in this adaptation. The young couples were the ones who were more important...