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Director:
Adrian Noble
Writers:
Adrian Noble (writer)
William Shakespeare (play)
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Release Date:
29 November 1996 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
A boy dreams the play. Authority in Athens is shaky: Hermia rejects her father's choice, the Duke backs her father... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Creative and very English adaptation more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Lindsay Duncan ... Hippolyta / Titania
Alex Jennings ... Theseus / Oberon
Desmond Barrit ... Nick Bottom
Finbar Lynch ... Philostrate / Puck (as Barry Lynch)
Osheen Jones ... The Boy

Monica Dolan ... Hermia
Emily Raymond ... Helena
Ann Hasson ... First Fairy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gemma Aston ... Fairy / Courtier
John Baxter ... Fairy / Courtier
Alfred Burke ... Egeus
Emily Button ... Principal Fairy / Courtier

Howard Crossley ... Tom Snout / Fairy
Kevin Doyle ... Demetrius
Daniel Evans ... Lysander
Robert Gillespie ... Robin Starveling / Cobweb
Tim Griggs ... Principal Fairy / Courtier
Guy Hargreaves ... Fairy / Courtier
Michelle Jordan ... Fairy / Courtier

John Kane ... Peter Quince / Mustardseed
Sarah Kruger ... Fairy / Courtier
Mark Letheren ... Francis Flute / Peaseblossom
Nicola McRoy ... Fairy / Courtier
Joseph Morton ... Fairy / Courtier

Matt Patresi ... Fairy / Courtier
Oscar Pearce ... Fairy / Courtier
Dominique Poulter ... Fairy / Courtier
Darren Roberts ... Principal Fairy / Courtier
Kenn Sabberton ... Snug
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Singapore:105 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color

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Version of Le songe d'une nuit d'été (1909) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Creative and very English adaptation, 21 February 2003
Author: Ray Girvan from Devon, UK

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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