Midsummer Night’s Dream

November 28th, 2005 - 21:49 | 2 comments

A Midsummer Night’s Dream always was something of a bizarre play, but had a certain charm. I was quite impressed when this evening’s re-imagining managed to squash that charm completely. I gave it one more chance after:

Queen of the Fairies: My name’s Titania
Bottom: [looks down] I’m not surprised

but then Oberon said:

Is Puck short for Puck-up by any chance? Get anything else wrong and I’ll stick this midsummer night’s dream up where the moon don’t shine

and that was enough for me. Not my style of humour Such a shame, when Much Ado About Nothing was so good a few weeks back.

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2 Responses to “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

1 Ed Nov 29th, 2005 at 5:19 am

Yeah, I thought it sucked
2 skuds Nov 30th, 2005 at 9:33 pm

I wanted to watch that but forgot and turned it on towards the end of Act 2 Scene 2, or its rough equivalent. I really wanted to like it, but I thought it was appalling.

Having played the part of Bottom at the Old Vic (Honest. I used to have acting ambitions) I have a great affection for the play and could watch it any number of times (although when I go with my friends we always find it hard to not join in, and always get strange looks when we are the only ones laughing at the line “I am as ugly as a bear”) but this was was so poor even the great Johnny Vegas could not rescue it.

I could not bear to stay tuned to see how they butchered the play at the end.

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