Join the team - Nicholas Koy Santillo, Ariana Karp, Brittany Chandler and Jane May - while we talk about the shortest acts in the show (Itself one of Shakespeare's shortest plays), which resolves much of the conflict and sets up the final huzzah!
We discuss how to present large characters (Theseus and Hippolyta) which have few lines, and how they may be given characteristics by what the common knowledge in a Shakespearean audience may be. We also discuss Shakespearean plays often follow the Order-to-chaos-to-order structure, and that structure in relationship to Elizabethan England. Finally we look at Bottom's speech on returning to his human form, and how it captures the nature of waking from a dream.
Also, the book Koy was searching for is Michael Green's "The Art of Coarse Acting" which you can find by clicking the book cover below.
