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...married in the woods outside the city. Helena, a friend of Hermia, learns of her plans and tells Demetrius, knowing he will follow Hermia into the woods where Helena hopes to seduce him. The four flee restrictive-but-orderly Athens for the woods, where the fairies, ruled by Titania, and Puck, assistant to Oberon, gallivant with one another and trick the mortals with magic herbs...
...before, William Shakespeare had said the same thing, only better, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a sensual, even savage, account of the lunacy of love. Four sexually infatuated Athenians make fools of themselves and try to murder one another, while jealous Oberon casts a spell on unfaithful Titania that leads her to bed down with an ass. With characteristic perversity, Shakespeare presented this demonic fantasy as an ode to nature, one of his loveliest flights of lyric poetry...
Cheap laughs won in this easy way merely emphasize Shakespeare's use of characters as megaphones. His words are what matter, and of the cast only Oberon (George Hearn) and Titania (Kathleen Widdoes) can get their tongues round blank verse. This raises an overdue point. William Shakespeare has done a lot for Joseph Papp. Surely, Papp could return the compliment and insist that actors be given voice lessons when he mounts a Shakespeare play at one of the seven Manhattan theaters under his dominion. Gina Mallet
...married Dankworth and began appearing with his band as a featured act, but she also kept up her new attachment to the theater. She played both Hippolyta and Titania in a West End production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedda Gabler at Canterbury, and replaced an ailing Lotte Lenya in a production of the Weill-Brecht The Seven Deadly Sins in Edinburgh. Currently she is starring in a London revival of Show Boat, where her breathy, pulsating Bill is a showboat-stopper. Her musically adventurous nature has also led her to give lieder recitals, try some of Dankworth...
...Angeles. A trouper since the age of five when she played in The Sixth Commandment, she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in films during the late 1930s. Her roles ran the Hollywood gamut (Casanova Brown; Retreat, Hell!), but she confessed a preference for period and costume pictures (Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marie Antoinette in Madame Du Barry...