The 7thgrade’sA Midsummer Night’s Dream
Cast (in order of appearance)
Narr #1 - Dasha / Gia Snug (Lion) - Jeremy / Sean
Theseus – Owen / Anthony Demetrius – Ryan / Justin
Hippolyta – Julia / Shelby Starveling (Moonshine) - Kelsie / Christian
Narr #2 - Shaina / Karyse Lysander – Sander / David
Quince - Christian / Gia Hermia – Aidan / Karyse
Snout (Wall) Julia / Trevor Helena – Shaina / Shelby
Narr #3 - Sander Oberon – Khalif / Owen
Bottom (Pyramus) Megan / Aidan Titania – Kelsie / Georgia
Flute (Thisbe) – Tristan / Jessica Puck - Nic / Aidan
NARR #1: Duke Theseus explains enchantment to his new bride, Hippolyta.
THESEUS: Lovers are madmen, Hippolyta. The poet imagines things unknown; the fearful lover supposes a bush to be a bear.
HIPP: ‘Tis strange my Theseus.
THESEUS: More strange than true.
NARR #2:Quince, a carpenter, announces a play about lovers to entertain the wedding guests
QUINCE: Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show.
We come for your delight. We are not here
that you repent. These actors by their show,
You shall know all that you are like to know.
(Enter Bottom (Pyramus) and Flute (Thisbe); Snout (Wall); Starveling (Moonshine); Snug (Lion)
This man is Pyramus. This beauteous lady, Thisbe. This man is Wall. This man with lantern is Moonshine. This grisly beast is Lion.
WALL: In this same interlude it doth befall
that I, one Snout by name, present a wall,
a wall that had a hole or chink, through which the lovers whisper.
NARR #3: Pyramus draws near the wall. Silence!
PYRAMUS: Oh grim-looked night! O night with hue so black!
O night, which ever art when day is not!
O night, O night! Alack, alack, alack!
I fear my Thisby’s promise is forgot!
O sweet , O lovely Wall, show me thy chink,
to blink through with mine eyne! But what see I?
No Thisbe do I see! O wicked Wall!
Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!
THISBE: O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,
for parting my fair Pyramus and me!
My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones.
PYRAMUS: I see a voice! Now will I to the chink to hear my Thisbe’s face. This-be!
THISBE:My love thou art, my love I think!
PYRAMUS: O kiss me through the hole of this vile Wall!
THISBE: I kiss the Wall’s hole, not your lips at all.
PYRAMUS: Wilt thou at Ninny’s tomb meet me straightway.
THISBE: Tide life, tide death, I come without delay!
HIPPOLYTA: This is the silliest stuff that e’er I heard!
THESEUS:Here come two noble beasts in, a moon and a lion.
LION: You ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear
the smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
may now tremble here when Lion rough doth roar.
Then know that I as Snug, am no lion.
THESEUS: A very gentle beast!
DEMETRIUS: the very best at a beast, my lord, that e’er I saw!
THESEUS: Let us listen to the Moon.
MOONSHINE: This lanthorn doth the horned moon present. My self the Man in the Moon do seem to be.
THESEUS: This is the greatest error of all the rest. The man should be put into the lantern. How is it else the Man in the Moon?
DEMETRIUS: He dares not come there for the candle!
HIPPOLYTA: I am weary of this moon. Would he would change!
HELENA: So methinks!
LYSANDER: Proceed, Moon
HERMIA: Methinks I see these things with parted eye
When everything seems double
MOONSHINE: All that I have to say is to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the Man in the Moon.
DEMETRIUS: Why, this should be in the lantern. But silence! Here comes Thisbe.
THISBE: Where is my love?
LION: O!
DEMETRIUS: Well roared, Lion!
THESEUS: Well run, Thisbe!
HIPPOLYTA: Well shone, Moon!
PYRAMUS: Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams!
What dreadful dole is here!
O dainty duck! O dear
Thy Mantle good,
What, stained with blood!
Approach, ye Furies fell!
O Fates, come, come,
Cut tread and thrum!
Quail, crush, conclude and quell!
Come, tear, confound.
Out, sword, and wound
The pap of Pyramus.
Ay, that left pap,
Where heart doth hop!
Thus die I, thus, thus, thus…
Now am I dead,
Now am I fled.
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light
Moon, take thy flight
Now… die, die, die, die, die.
HIPPOLYTA: How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes back?
THESEUS: She will find him by starlight.
LYSANDER: She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes!
THISBE:
Asleep, my love?
What, dead, my dove?
O Pyramus, arise!
Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
Dead? Dead? A tomb
Must cover thy sweet eyes!
These lily lips,
This cherry nose,
These yellow cowslip cheeks
Are gone, are gone!
Lovers make moan;
His eyes were green as leeks.
Come, blade, my breast imbrue!
And, farewell, friends!
Thus Thisbe ends,
Adieu, adieu, adieu!
BOTTOM: Will it please you to see the epilogue or to hear a Bergomask dance?
THESEUS:
No epilogue I pray you. For your play need no excuse.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed. ‘Tis almost fairy time.
I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn.
NARR #2: As the wedding party leave, the fairy fold enters to bless the palace with happiness.
OBERON:
Through the house give glimmering light,
Every elf and fairy sprite!
TITANIA:
Come, my lord, and in our flight
Tell me how we bless this night.
Hand-in-hand with fairy grace
Will we sing, and bless this place!
NARR#1: Puck hopes you liked the show!
PUCK:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
That you have but slumbered here.
So good night unto you all!
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.