Tom Loughlin is Bottom, Phil Wackerfuss is Puck, Marc Ruffino is Starveling, photo by Cindy Darling Oh my.Īnd, then there’s the concluding “play-within-a-play,” which, if done right, is actually pretty funny as we follow the local tradesmen, known as “mechanicals” (including Bottom now restored to human form), planning, rehearsing, and then performing the tale of the ill-fated lovers Pyramus and Thisbe, which is the play they plan to present at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. “What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?” she says upon seeing this creature. In fact, it’s not an animal, but the foolish character Bottom who now, through Puck’s magic, has the head of an ass.

So, Oberon summons his “fixer” – a fairy named “Puck” who is full of tricks and magic – to make Titania fall in love with an animal so that in her shame, she will accede to Oberon’s demands.

Oberon, King of the Fairies, is mad at his wife Titania, Queen of the Fairies, because she won’t give him her ward, the young “Indian changeling” to be his henchman. So, while the night is young, into the woods we go, where most of the shenanigans shake out. L-R Puck and Oberon, photo by Cindy Darling

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