Context: Directors have often chosen to use children to play the fairies. When Ellen Terry played Puck in 1856 she was only nine; in 1935 Max Reinhardt's film saw him played by a very young Mickey Rooney. In 2001 Christine Edzard's version of the play was performed entirely by children. Some productions have had a sense of anarchy: Celestino Coronada in 1984 had naked fairies and a grotesque Titania; John Caird's production in 1989 had heavy-booted 'punk' fairies operating out of a scrapyard. Despite running for only twelve minutes in total, the 1909 silent black and white film version manages to introduce an extra character, Penelope, to help Titania. | 
