Filmed adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1996 version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'Filmed adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1996 version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'Filmed adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1996 version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Creative and very English adaptation
I just love this film. I didn't see the stage version, but this is an extremely clever adaptation of the play: a nice parallel construction where the human court is pointed up by using the same actors as the fairy court, and Bottom's friends reappearing as his fairy attendants. Desmond Barrit is brilliantly characterised, and the Mechanicals very creatively presented as English working-class (for instance, Bottom on a motor-bike combination). And we're left with no doubts that he does have sex with Titania, and donkey's ears are not all he gets from the transformation! I think it's one of the hallmarks of good Shakespearian productions that it manages to make the humour genuinely funny, and the play-within-the-play combines slapstick with genuine pathos. Ultimately, it was a very moving production, whose end (despite my being fairly hard-bitten) brought tears to my eyes with its deep nostalgia and Englishness. You are sorry to leave the world of these characters.
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- raygirvan
- Feb 20, 2003
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By what name was A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996) officially released in Canada in English?
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