A Midsummer Night’s Dream

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a play by William Shakespeare.  It follows four lovers and features mischievous fairies and a ‘play within a play’.  It was a pleasure to be accompanied by Wales and Ireland’s regional councillor, Sharon Davies, for this production.

The society opted for a basic set design that gave opportunity for the cast to use different levels and entrances. 

This society has a lovely ability to modernise the work of Shakespeare and make it accessible for today’s audience.

 ‘The lovers’: Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius were played by Sarah Louise Roberts, Charlotte Amodeo, Michael Morgan and Daniel De Gruchy respectively. They all worked well together to develop the relationships central to the play’s plot.

Brogan Rogers gave a mischievous, yet classy, performance as Puck.  She had great delivery and held the audience’s attention throughout the production.  Well played.

Brogan was joined by other fairies: Moth (Laura Day), Peaseblossom (Ruth Glynn), Cobweb (Zara Law) and Mustardseed (Abbie Marks).  I really enjoyed what they all brought to the production.  Each had a very different character and all added value to every scene they were a part of.

Sion Owen played Nick Bottom and he was very funny; full of energy and with a brilliant character, Sion was clearly enjoying himself and so did the audience with him!

Alongside Sion, Gethin Glynn was great as Francis Flute.  A well-delivered, comedy performance.

This was a production with a large cast and so I can’t mention everyone, however, it’s safe to say that they all worked hard to deliver the best performances they could.

The cast did a good job tackling this piece in the middle of a heatwave and they should be congratulated for this. 

With a look to the future, it is important to focus on pace and projection.  At times during this production, both were lacking, which was a real shame.

I do enjoy coming to watch Wildflower’s productions.   I feel like I leave them having gained more knowledge each time and for that, I thank you.  I look forward to ‘Romeo and Juliet’ later this year.

 

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