A Midsummer’s Night Dream: A review

A summer solstices Night trance is unity of Shakespe atomic number 18s near popular comedies. There are thousands of versions of the embolden originated from actually assorted interpretations of the text. In this particular adaptation, the director, Joan Ollé, opted to point on the theme of the erotism and the funny side of the play. The eroticism is mainly represented by puck and Titania and Bottom. Pucks movements are real sensual and sexual as well. He is represented as a promiscuous character, very extrovert and with no shame. The relationship of Titania and Bottom is ofttimes eroticized too. Titania is represented as a voluptuous cleaning woman and Bottom is dressed with a red velvet drape and smoking a cigar, which make me think of Hugh Hefner and single of his booty girls. The funny side of the play is fortifyd specially by the workers, who speak in a very informal way, with incompatible accents from different parts of Catalonia, and performing in a unsound ed way. I think that one of the key funny moments is when they out dressed as beguile White and the dwarfs.\nI do non think that the characters invite been modified very much. It is true, though, that Demetrius and Lysander aspected younger than what I expected them to be. Moreover, one of them carries a scooter and they run a skirt and shorts, which is what elflike 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 more(prenominal) sexualized than in the text, and in rough scene it looked as if he was in some harming of relationship with Oberon, but it was not very clear. Gender government activity are not in truth made evident in this version since the director wanted to focus more on other aspects. However, I confused the strength of Hyppolita. In Shakespeares text there is a slight resistance to conjoin from Hyppolitas part that was not very represen ted in this adaptation. The young couples were the ones who were more important...