"San Ivanjske noći" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

autor: William Shakespeare

Uređeni svijet baruna i njegove zaručnice, svijet krutih pravila, zakona i običaja zapreka je ostvarenju ljubavnih čežnji jednog mladog ljubavnog para. Noćnim bijegom u šumu mladi će se par naći u vrtlogu bajkovita svijeta u kojem su omiljene igre ljudskim dušama. Ipak, sve prepreke punoj i pravoj ljubavnoj sreći do jutra će biti riješene, a na barunovom imanju održat će se trostruko vjenčanje!

William Shakespeare jedan je od onih besmrtnih i fantastičnih autora čija djela uvijek iznova u svim vremenima i modnim trendovima pronalaze put do publike. "San Ivanjske noći" (A Midsummer Night's Dream), djelo nastalo neposredno nakon "Romea i Julije", popularnost je steklo ponajprije svojom spektakularnošću.
Ivanjska noć u začaranoj šumi postaje mjesto razotkrivanja hirovitosti ljudske prirode, nestalnosti ljubavnih osjećaja, raskalašenosti i nesputanosti, a varka i čarolija isprepliću se s finom psihologijom.

Zarez , Nataša Govedić

Titania
Puck
Oberon
Helena
Lysander
Demetrius
Hermia
Theseus
Hippolyta
Snug
Egeus
Philostrate
Hard-Eye Fairy
Bottom's Wife
Cobweb
Mustardseed
Moth
Peaseblossom
Master Antonio
Dangerous Boy
Changeling Boy
Fairy Musician
Fairy
Nymph
Pantomime Dwarf
Dwarf
Fury
Satyr
Member of Commedia Dell'Arte Troupe
Faun
Medusa
Egyptian Pharaoh
Sphinx
Janus Figure
Voice

A Midsummer Night's Dream
a k a William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999-Italy/UK/USA-Drama, Comedy
N.Y. Times Review by Janet Maslin

PLOT DESCRIPTION
With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the usual trickle of film adaptations of the Bard's work is becoming a small flood, and director Michael Hoffman has assembled a cast of leading stage and screen actors for this whimsical film version of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. This interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream moves the action to Tuscany near the turn of the 20th century, as both mortals and enchanted creatures deal with romantic problems. Among the flesh-and-blood crowd, Duke Theseus (played by David Strathairn) is preparing for his wedding to Hippolyta (Sophie Marceau), while having to counsel Egeus (Bernard Hill), who has promised the hand of his daughter Hermia (Anna Friel) to Demetrius (Christian Bale). Hermia, however, wants to elope with her true love, Lysander (Dominic West), while her best friend Helena (Calista Flockhart) is mad about Demetrius. Meanwhile, fairies living in the forest are watching these romantic misadventures. Puck (Stanley Tucci) serves up love potions that mix and match the already confused lovers, while the Queen of Fairies, Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer), and her King, Oberon (Rupert Everett), have to deal with a group of hapless actors rehearsing a play in the forest -- one of whom, Bottom (Kevin Kline), has fallen under Puck's spell and becomes Titania's new lover. Will anyone end up with the person they really love? Who will get hurt riding their bicycles in the woods? Will Helena sit down and eat a square meal? Director Hoffman, a longtime Shakespeare buff, appeared as Lysander in a production of the play while a college student, and has since spearheaded a campaign to build a new $3 million theatre for his alma mater in Boise, ID. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Memorable Quotes from
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

Puck: If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended. That you have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear, and this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream. Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. Else the Puck a liar call. And so good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

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[Last lines]
Puck: If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended, / That you have but slumber'd here / While these visions did appear. / And this weak and idle theme, / No more yielding but a dream, / Gentles, do not reprehend: / If you pardon we will mend. / Else the Puck a liar call. / Give me your hands, if we be friends, / And Robin shall restore amends.

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Titania: Come, my lord, and in our flight / Tell me how it came this night / That I sleeping here was found / With these mortals on the ground.

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Theseus: The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve: Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
Oberon: Now, until the break of day / Through this house each fairy stray. / To the best bride-bed will we, / Which by us shall blessed be; / So shall all the couples three / Ever true in loving be; / And the owner of it blest / Ever shall in safety rest. / Trip awa; make no stay; / Meet me all by break of day.

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[repeated line]
Helena: Oh, spite, oh hell.

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Helena: I am your spaniel. And Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you. Use me - but as your spaniel. Spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me, but give me leave, unworthy as I am, to follow you.

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Tom Snout: [Puck has turned Bottom into a donkey] Bottom, thou art changed. What do I see on thee?
Bottom the Weaver: What do you see? What; do you see an ass' head of your own, do you?
Peter Quince: [backing away] Bless me. Thou art translated.
[all run off, leaving Bottom alone on the stage]
Bottom the Weaver: Why do the run away? I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.

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Bottom the Weaver: I have had a most rare vision / I have had a dream / Past the wit of man to say what dream it was. / Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. / Methought I was... / There's no man can tell what. / Methought I was... / Methought I had... / Man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what I had.

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Bottom the Weaver: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen; Man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.

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Theseus: [Reveiewing possible plays to be presented] "Battle with the Centaurs," to be sung by an Athenian eunuch to the harp. We'll none of that.

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Theseus: Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief? That is hot ice and wonderous strange snow.

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Bottom the Weaver: Since lion vile hath here deflowered my dear...
Peter Quince: DEVOURED.

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Francis Flute: Asleep, my love? What, dead, my dove?

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Theseus: No epilogue, I pray you, for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse, for when the players are all dead, there need none to be blamed.

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Puck: Up and down, up and down, / I will lead them up and down. / I am feared in field and town. / Goblin lead them up and down.