Gregory Doran Production 2005

Other videos in this series

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005) - Act 2 Scene 2

  Watch this extract from the production, filmed on stage in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 2005. Below you'll find links to more video clips where the director, designer and actors discuss issues raised by the extract.

  Act 2 Scene 2

  Oberon casts his spell on a sleeping Titania. Meanwhile Puck has transformed Bottom so he now has the head of an ass. Bottom marches and sings to stop himself feeling frightened. His singing wakes Titania and, under the influence of the spell, she falls instantly in love with him.

  Oberon - Joe Dixon
  Titania - Amanda Harris
  Bottom - Malcolm Storry

• Stephen Brimson-Lewis - Designing Titania's bower

  Designer Stephen Brimson-Lewis describes what inspired his design of Titania's bower.

• Joe Dixon - What's Oberon's problem?

  Oberon and Titania are lovers - so why are they fighting?

• Joe Dixon - The idea for staging the spell

  Joe Dixon, who plays Oberon, describes how a line in Shakespeare's play inspired this idea for staging Oberon's spell.

• Gregory Doran - The fairies

  Director Gregory Doran describes the obsessions and the influence of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

• Malcolm Storry - The ass's head

  Actor Malcolm Storry demonstrates how the ass's head works and how it affects his movements on stage.

• Malcolm Storry - What's Bottom thinking?

  Malcolm Storry, who plays Bottom, describes how Bottom is feeling at the beginning of this scene.