Characters and actors:
Helena (Charlotte and Patricia…)
Philostrate (Cedric and Xavier…)
Hermia (Kim!…and Ludivine)
Puck (Alessandro)
Titania (Inès)
Starveling (Angelo)
Oberon (Quentin)
Hyppolyta (SiQuynh)
Snug (Sebastien)
we’ll have to redefine the characters once we’ve started playing it a bit. In the meantime, I invite you to check Wikipedia about the play. I’ve copy-pasted here their page regarding the characters for you to get some ideas.
- The men and woman in the play of high social class:
- Lysander, beloved of Hermia
- Hermia, beloved of Lysander
- Helena, in love with Demetrius
- Demetrius, in love with Hermia but then falls in love with Helena later on.
- Egeus, father of Hermia, wants to force Hermia to wed Demetrius
- Theseus, Duke of Athens, good friend of Egeus
- Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons and betrothed of Theseus
- The lower-class citizens in the play:
- Philostrate, Master of the Revels for Theseus
- The acting troupe (otherwise known as The Mechanicals):
- Peter Quince, carpenter, who leads the troupe
- Nick Bottom, weaver; he plays Pyramus in the troupe’s production of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” and gets a donkey head put on him by Puck so that Titania will magically fall in love with a monster.
- Francis Flute, the bellows-mender who plays Thisbe.
- Robin Starveling, the tailor who plays Moonshine.
- Tom Snout, the tinker who plays the wall.
- Snug, the joiner who plays the lion.
- The supernatural characters:
