Performers Needed for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Show

Queen of the Fairies. At the start of the play we find her having an argument with Oberon. She refuses to give him a changeling boy that she has promised to look after. She leaves Oberon’s company with her fairies. She tells them to sing her a lullaby to help her sleep. While she is asleep, Oberon puts a magic love potion from a flower in her eyes. When she wakes up, she sees Bottom with an ass’ head and immediately falls in love with him.

King of the Fairies. At the start of the play we find him arguing with Titania, the Queen of the Fairies because she refuses to give him a changeling boy that he wants for himself. As revenge for refusing him, he decides to play a trick on her. He asks his servant, Puck, to find a magic flower which, when the juice of it is put in someone’s eyes when they are asleep, makes them fall in love with the first living thing they see when they awake.

Oberon’s servant. At the start of the play we find him showing off to another fairy about the mischievous tricks he’s played on humans. Oberon asks him to find a magic flower, the juice of which is used on the eyes of a sleeping person to make them fall in love with the first living thing they see when they wake up. Oberon then asks him to put some of the juice in Demetrius’ eyes but he puts it in Lysander’s by mistake which causes all kinds of problems.

A young gentleman in the court, who used to be in a relationship with Helena. He is now in love with Hermia and has her father’s blessing to marry her. He follows Hermia into the forest when he learns from Helena that she has run away with Lysander. While in the forest he has a magic spell put on him that makes him fall in love with Helena. At the end of the play he recognises that he has loved Helena all along and they get married.

A young woman in Athens and Egeus’ daughter. She is in love with Lysander but unfortunately Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius. Egeus invokes an ancient law that states he can choose his daughter’s husband or she will be put to death. The Duke Theseus upholds the law and condemns Hermia to death. She and Lysander decide to elope to escape the judgement. In the woods they are chased by Demetrius and Helena, Hermia’s best friend.

A young gentleman in the court. He is in love with Hermia and she with him. Unfortunately, Hermia’s father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia decide to run away together but they are followed by Demetrius and Helena. Whilst there, Lysander has a magic spell put on him which makes him accidentally fall in love with Helena. The spell is eventually lifted and by the end of the play he and Hermia have married each other.

A young woman in Athens. She is in love with Demetrius but he is not in love with her. Instead, he loves her best friend Hermia. As a way of convincing Demetrius to love her, Helena tells him about Hermia’s plan to run away with Lysander and together they go into the forest to find her. While there, Lysander and Demetrius fall under a magic spell that makes them both fall in love with Helena

A weaver in Athens who has ambitions to be an actor. At the start of the play we see Bottom trying to convince Peter Quince that he should play all the characters in the play to celebrate the Duke’s wedding. During one of the mechanical’s rehearsals he is magically transformed into an ass, and in this state Titania, Queen of the Fairies, falls in love with him. By the end of the play he is turned back into a human and able to perform the part of Pyramus in the play.