A Midsummer Nights Dream

Description: Genre: Drama / Year: 2005 / Theo and Polly have come to Dream Park to celebrate their daughter Hermia's engagement. But ... more

A Midsummer Nights Dream ... the course of true love never did run smooth, and the night ahead holds revelations, fairies, transformations and plenty of love juice. Imelda Staunton, Bill Paterson, Sharon Small, Lennie James and Johnny Vegas star in Peter Bowker's updating of Shakespeare's romantic comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Newest Review: ... makes one of the show entertainers bottom turn into an ass (donkey again people) and the love juice he has put on Titania makes her fall in love with Bottom. Verdict on the Story: As you can see apart from the actual names changing slightly for the boys, the story is practically the same as in the play. I think this is the closest adaptation to the actual play out of the four and it is ... more

... great. The setting of the story in Dream Park is really good because there are so many places that they can go and hide and also there are lots of woods for walking so they can stick to the original story in the respect that they can elope to the wood...more

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A Midsummer Nights Dream: Fun and Fairies. (1406 words)
by - written on 01/03/06 (Very useful, 1102 readings)
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The third Shakespeare adaptation I watched I was really looking forward to because it is based on my all time favourite play A Midsummer Nights Dream. I think this is one of Shakespeare’s finest comedy pieces so I couldn’t wait to see what they had done with it because if any of the adaptations could let me down it would be this one. ----- Actual Story of A Midsummer Nights Dream: Egeus a nobleman asks Theseus who is the Duke of Athens for help. He wishes his daughter Hermia would marry Demetrius but Hermia is in love with another guy Lysander. If hermia disobeys her father then she could be put in a convent or executed. Hermia and ... Read the complete review

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