A MIDSUMMER NIGHT ’ S
DREAM WAS THIS YEAR ’ S SENIOR PLAY
DRAMA
ROMANTIC ENTANGLEMENTS :
A SHAKESPEARE COMEDY
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT ’ S
DREAM WAS THIS YEAR ’ S SENIOR PLAY
The Senior Play this year was A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream , one of Shakespeare ’ s earlier comedies , where mischievous fairies pull the strings of their human puppets , while a group of workers toil to put on a play for their Duke . In conjunction with students from Lauriston Girls ’ School , over four months a cast of more than 40 students put endless efforts into making this show come to life . The play starts in the city of Athens , where Theseus , the Duke , is soon to marry Hippolyta to cement an alliance . We soon meet the four Athenian lovers , Hermia and Lysander , Helena and Demetrius , and we find that Hermia loves Lysander , but her father insists she marries Demetrius . However , Hermia and Lysander decide to elope into the forest . Helena , Hermia ' s friend , is in love with Demetrius , but he is indifferent to her . The four lovers end up in the mystical forest , and their romantic entanglements become further complicated by the magic of the fairies .
Meanwhile , in a different part of the forest , a group of ‘ mechanicals ’ rehearse their rendition of the legend of Pyramus and Thisbe , which follows two lovers who are forbidden to wed by their parents because of a longstanding rivalry , but find a way to love anyway by whispering through a crack in a wall between their houses . It might be interesting to note that it is believed that
52 Great Scot Issue 169 – September 2023