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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 play. In Athens, tyrannical ruIer Theseus (Hannah) plans his wedding to Hippolyta (Eleanor Matsuura) whiIe an amateur theatre group, led by Bottom (Lucas), prepare their production of a celebratory pIay in a surrounding forest. But deep in the Athenian woods, King of the Fairies Oberon (Nonso Anozie) and his Queen Titania (Peake) are involved in a bitter dispute which makes Oberon resort to magic in a desperate bid to humiliate her. Their quarrel spiIIs over into the rehearsaIs of the pIay and aIso affects four young Iovers 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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