A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper

The freshman and sophomore classes did a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I attended the play on both nights. My family and my boyfriend also attended the play, my boyfriend to only the first night and my family to both nights. My favorite part was at the beginning, when Egeus, Lysander, Demetrius, Theseus, and Hermia are talking about who Hermia is to be with. I really love my Egeus monologue. The second night during that whole section was my favorite. Lysander (John) says in our scene something about how much he loves Hermia and why he should be with her instead of Demetrius. I felt so bad for Lysander. If I was really Egeus, at that moment I would have said, “Lysander you can be with Hermia! You are perfect for each other,” or something like that. Overall, the whole production was amazing.

One of my concepts was to put emotion behind my character’s words to make them more realistic and easier to understand. Most people I talked to afterwards understood my characters so I feel I did a good job translating it to the stage. I also helped with finishing my costumes. That helped show a physical image to better picture and understand my characters. It was hard at times to finish costumes because you’d have to get tons of okays first. It was also hard to come up with movement on stage sometimes and to remember to project on show nights. I would, next time, make less costume changes or at least make the costume changes less difficult. Next time I would memorize my lines quicker so I’d have more time time to figure out movements and entrances and exits and such. Those things are important and would make everything more