Reflection on "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Last Friday, our school organized us to watch the play called "A Midsummer Night's Dream" which edited from one of Shakespeare's comedy. This famous play uses new setting combining with modern elements that makes audience become more interested about this work. This play shows: When the wedding day of the King of Athens Theseus and the Queen Hippolyta is coming, a man called Egeus disagrees with his daughter’s love with another woman Lysander. A young man called Demetrius loves Egeus’s daughter Hermia, but Hermia falls in love with Lysander. Dramatically, Hermia’s best friend Helena loves Demetrius so much. Because of father’s forcing and the King’s order, Hermia decides to run away with Lysander. Helena spills this thing to Demetrius, Demetrius also follows Hermia and Lysander to the forest. At the same time, a group of actors comes to the forest to practice their shows in order to perform in King and Queen’s wedding. These two groups of people go further in the forest gradually. Oberon is the king of fairy world, he disputes with Titania, the queen of fairy world, because of a Fairchild. Oberon orders his servant called Puck to look for a magic flowers’ juice to play trick on Titania and solve the problems in four young people’s complicated relationships. However, Puck is so tricky that she makes the main character of the group of actors called Bottom become a freak with donkey head, makes Titania loves Bottom after being enchanted and makes Lysander and Demetrius love Helena at the same time. After a mess, everyone returns to normal life: Titania becomes a obedient wife; Four young people’s love have a happy ending; Bottom return back to a man and keep practicing shows…

Scenario adds modern elements to make this play more interesting. Titania’s role-player is a man, he combines his masculinity with femininity in this role, and audience think it’s more humorous. My favorite role in this play is Puck. She holds a tricky attitude to be an onlooker of the mess. She crosses the complicated relationships and solves the problems. These kinds of polyamorous relationships also appear in the contemporary commonly, maybe we need puck to help us solve these problems.