A Midsummer’s Night Dream: A review

A midsummers Night fantasy is maven of Shakespe ares approximately popular comedies. There are thousands of versions of the renovate originated from real disparate interpretations of the text. In this particular adaptation, the director, Joan Ollé, opted to condense on the theme of the erotism and the funny side of the play. The eroticism is mainly represented by hockey 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 affinity of Titania and Bottom is ofttimes eroticized too. Titania is represented as a voluptuous charwoman and Bottom is dressed with a red velvet apparel and smoking a cigar, which do me think of Hugh Hefner and one of his dirty money girls. The funny side of the play is reenforced specially by the workers, who speak in a very informal way, with assorted accents from different parts of Catalonia, and playing in a muted way. I thin k that one of the key funny moments is when they step forward dressed as nose candy White and the dwarfs. \nI do non think that the characters stomach been modified very much. It is true, though, that Demetrius and Lysander aspected young than what I expected them to be. Moreover, one of them carries a scooter and they contain a skirt and shorts, which is what pocket-size 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 much sexualized than in the text, and in most scene it looked as if he was in some broad of relationship with Oberon, but it was non very clear. Gender politics are not unfeignedly made evident in this version since the director cute to focus more on other aspects. However, I lost(p) the strength of Hyppolita. In Shakespeares text there is a slight resistance to draw from Hyppolitas part that was not very represented in this adaptation . The young couples were the ones who were more important...