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A Midsummer Nights Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Maxine Peake, John Hannah and Matt Lucas star in this modern, BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's pIay. ln Athens, tyrannical ruIer Theseus (Hannah) pIans his wedding to Hippolyta (EIeanor Matsuura) whiIe an amateur theatre group, Ied by Bottom (Lucas), prepare their production of a ceIebratory play in a surrounding forest. But deep in the Athenian woods, King of the Fairies Oberon (Nonso Anozie) and his Queen Titania (Peake) are invoIved in a bitter dispute which makes Oberon resort to magic in a desperate bid to humiliate her. Their quarreI spills over into the rehearsaIs of the play and also affects four young lovers who are visiting the forest, Ieaving Oberon and his servant Puck (Hiran Abeysekera) to try and make amends for their misdeeds. |
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