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"ShakespeaRe-Told" A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)
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"ShakespeaRe-Told" (2005)Original Air Date:
28 November 2005 (Season 1, Episode 4)Plot:
Mis-directed love potions complicate an already complicated set of relationships. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Bill Paterson | ... | Theo |
 | Imelda Staunton | ... | Polly |
 | Lennie James | ... | Oberon |
| Sharon Small | ... | Titania |
| Dean Lennox Kelly | ... | Puck |
| William Ash | ... | James |
| Zoe Tapper | ... | Hermia |
 | Rupert Evans | ... | Zander |
| Michelle Bonnard | ... | Helena |
| Johnny Vegas | ... | Bottom |
| Simon Day | ... | Quince |
| Mina Anwar | ... | Flute |
 | Ben Crompton | ... | Snug |
| Emmanuel Ighodaro | ... | Snout |
| Andy Williams | ... | Geoff |
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This is an entertaining production, which is refreshing and well-acted. If you previously didn't go for the whimsy of Shakespeare's MSN, you may well find it much more accessible in this modern version set at a kind of holiday camp (Centerparcs meets Butlins, for British readers). There is some good acting (e.g. Puck), too.
On the downside, there are some dodgy, wandering accents, and Sharon Small (who is normally great as Havers in Inspector Linley) sadly seems to flit from American, to Estuary, to Scottish. Her overdone painted face does her no favours either.
I hope the BBC will do another series of modernized Shakespeare. For those who haven't seen them, "Much ado about nothing" from the first series is also very good, but my tip is to steer clear of "Macbeth" and "Taming of the Shrew".