The
whimsical tale of A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows errant love stories in the
human world and the fairy world as the escapades of the lovers overlap from one
realm to the next. The human lovers, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and
Demetrius, get caught in the schemes of Oberon, king of the fairies, when he
sends his servant Puck to sprinkle a love potion on Titania, the queen of the
fairies. The potion causes its object to fall in love with the first person she
sees upon waking. Titania awakes and proclaims her devotion to Bottom, a
weaver turned into a donkey. The comedy unfolds as the mismatched characters
travel through the forest throughout the night behaving outlandishly. By
morning the confusion is solved thanks to the work of Puck, and the worlds of
the fairies and humans are reordered once more.
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