Synopsis:
The play is a mini-sequel to Midsummer Night's Dream. Nick Bottom, still partly in thrall to his experiences in the wood, has become a travelling playactor, leading a ragbag company gathered up over the years on the road. Now, ten years later, he returns to Athens. His career has been neither a financial nor a dramatic success, and, after yet another disaster, he and his players find themselves sheltering in the same woodland glade of the Pyramus rehearsals ten years earlier. The apparent accident of their coming is in fact Puck's doing, at Oberon's behest, obeying Titania's wishes. And the action of the play concerns Titania's making amends for the turmoil she has caused to Bottom's life, now perhaps at its ending. The individual members of his company are also guided by her to their own destinations in life. But not before she has witnessed Bottom's performance of his rewrite of the death scene from 'Albert the Dane'. The aim of the piece is a mixture of comedy and pathos, and an echo of the enchantment of
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