"ShakespeaRe-Told"
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)

Regisseur:

Ed Fraiman

Drehbuchautoren:

Peter Bowker (writer)
William Shakespeare (play)

TV-Serie:

"ShakespeaRe-Told" (2005)

Erstausstrahlung:

28. November 2005 (Staffel 1, Folge 4)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Mis-directed love potions complicate an already complicated set of relationships.

Plot Keywords:

Love Triangle | Metamorphosis | Love Potion | Play Within Play | Engagement Party

Nutzerkommentare:

Entertaining

Besetzung

Bill Paterson	...	Theo
Imelda Staunton	...	Polly
Lennie James	...	Oberon
Sharon Small	...	Titania
Dean Lennox Kelly	...	Puck
William Ash	...	James
Zoe Tapper	...	Hermia
Rupert Evans	...	Zander
Michelle Bonnard	...	Helena
Johnny Vegas	...	Bottom
Simon Day	...	Quince
Mina Anwar	...	Flute
Ben Crompton	...	Snug
Emmanuel Ighodaro	...	Snout
Andy Williams	...	Geoff

Länge:

90 Min

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Stereo

Altersfreigabe:

UK:12 | Australia:PG

Firma:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Dies und das:

Bottom's first name is Nicholas -- knicker-less.

Dialogzitate:

Oberon: Is Puck short for Puck-up by any chance?

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt "The Office" (2001)

Entertaining

This is an entertaining production, which is refreshing and well-acted. If you previously didn't go for the whimsy of Shakespeare's MSN, you may well find it much more accessible in this modern version set at a kind of holiday camp (Centerparcs meets Butlins, for British readers). There is some good acting (e.g. Puck), too.

On the downside, there are some dodgy, wandering accents, and Sharon Small (who is normally great as Havers in Inspector Linley) sadly seems to flit from American, to Estuary, to Scottish. Her overdone painted face does her no favours either.

I hope the BBC will do another series of modernized Shakespeare. For those who haven't seen them, "Much ado about nothing" from the first series is also very good, but my tip is to steer clear of "Macbeth" and "Taming of the Shrew".