#egeus

[bethanydelleman]

Egeus: Lysander has used ARTS AND ALLUREMENTS against my child!

Audience: Okay, how did he seduce her?

Egeus: He gave her poetry, sang outside her window, gifted her jewelry, sent her flowers, sent delicious snacks, and thereby STOLE her heart.

Audience:

(I borrowed "arts and allurements" from Lady Catherine in Pride & Prejudice, the actual quote is "hath bewitched the bosom of my child")

[ebiemidnightlibrarian]

GARETH SNOOK as QUINCE/EGEUS in the 2019 Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in London

[stingrayextraordinaire]

A Midsummer Night’s Memes, part 2

[Part 1]

[jekyll-doodles]

Midsummer Night's Dream - The Adults/The Lovers (GreenGhostlyJekyll on DeviantArt) Do not remove source/edit/ trace/repost!

for those wondering, this is what I was working on for those last few weeks of the semester for my theater class. Along with the set design. And now that that class is over, I'm giving these designs over to @oscarsings , though I might draw a thing or two after.

The Fairies - The Mechanicals

[wheretobuygoodurl]

Started reading a midsummer night’s dream...

honestly what’d I expect from Theseus

[hitchell-mope]

DAC fancast: a midsummer nights dream

Chris Evans. Theseus—Duke of Athens

Anabelle Wallis. Hippolyta—Queen of the Amazons

Will Smith. Egeus—father of Hermia

China Anne McClain. Hermia—daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander

Mitchell Hope. Lysander—in love with Hermia

Booboo Stewart. Demetrius—suitor to Hermia, former lover of Helena

Elle Fanning. Helena—in love with Demetrius

Ben Schwartz. Nick Bottom—a weaver

Santiago Cabrera Oberon—King of the Fairies

Gal Godot. Titania—Queen of the Fairies

Asher angel. Robin "Puck" Goodfellow—a mischievous sprite with magical powers

Stipulations. Remove the potion before each couple gets together. Kill off Theseus like in the bbc version. Top notch songs. Each actor keeps their natural accents. Try not to make Egeus such a tool. And retain Puck’s ending monologue

[shakespearenews]

Trevor Nunn production | Macbeth | Royal Shakespeare Company

Discover more about Trevor Nunn's groundbreaking production of Macbeth

CROSS-CASTING CONFUSION

When Macbeth transferred to the Warehouse in London, Griffith Jones was playing Duncan but he was also Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Aldwych Theatre. Sometimes both plays were on the same evening, so he played the first scene of Dream, then walked up the road to the Warehouse to be 'killed' as Duncan, then walked back to the Aldywch for the last scene of Dream.

[shakespeareanthoughts]

Ranking of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Characters

The Mechanicals: pretty swell guys, would definitely want to be friends with them

Hermia: just wants to marry the guy she loves

Lysander: just wants to marry the girl he loves, whole “loving Helena” is not his fault

Helena: bit of an inferiority complex, endearing and just wants to be loved

Hippolyta: kind of just there, seems like a nice lady

Theseus: a bit too concerned with his wedding vs the possibility of a girl dying, was in a bit of a tight spot and did his best to get around it

The Fairies: just following orders, not much personality there

Titania: just wants to have her changeling boy (which I do not condone and therefore she is lower on the list than need be but you gotta admit there are a lot of reasonable and not terrible characters in this play)

Philostrate: has a pretty good speech about all the possible performances

Demetrius: he’s a prick

Puck: kind of creepy

Nick Bottom: obnoxious, overbearing, and loud

Oberon: what is your deal man you just left the potion in Demetrius’ eyes without his consent, also not a great “person” in general

Egeus: terrible father, not the worst in Shakespeare’s cannon but he’s up there, why would you want your daughter to die???