School Incursion • Victoria
A Midsummer Night's Dream – School Incursion
School Incursion
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Through the performance of key scenes and discussion of narrative, our A Midsummer Night's Dream session encapsulates the whole play and its interweaving worlds of the lovers, fairies and mechanicals to give students a playful experience of the text in performance. Robust discussion throughout focuses on love and marriage, perception and imagination, magic and nature, dreams and transformation, and high and low comedy.
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- Love and Marriage
- Perception and Imagination
- Magic and Nature Dreams and Transformation
- Different Modes of Comedy
- Shakespeare’s language styles and how they inform character and drive the story
