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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Year 6’s class Assembly. By William Shakespeare with some help from me. Cast Titania Oberon Puck Peasblossom Moth Mustard Cobweb Peter Quince Nick Bottom Francis Flute Snug Snout Starveling Demetrius Helena Lysander Hermia Egeus Philostrate Changling boy Theseus Hippolyta Narrators 1, 2 3 Act 1 Class seated in semicircle Theseus and Hyppolyta in centre. Narrator 1: Welcome to Theseus’ great palace where he is getting ready to marry Hyppolyta (Theseus and Hyppolyta wave, others talk in conversation). Up stands Egues, Demetrius, Lysander and Hermia. Philostrate: Order, order! (crowd stops talking and pays attention). Egeus: My Lord my daughter here wants to marry Lysander but I want her to marry this fine man Demetrious. Theseus: Then as you are you wish Demetrious it must be. Egeus: Thank you lord. (exit Demetrious and Egeus). Hermia: How can I marry Demetrious when it is you who I love. Lysander: We will run away tonight, through the forest to my aunt’s to get married. Hermia: Yes I’ll meet you tonight at the city gate. Lysander: Until then goodbye sweet love.( Exit Lysander. Enter Helena). Helena: Why so happy Hermia. Hermia: I am to run away tonight to marry my love Lysander. Helena: Lucky you! (aside) I shall tell Demetrious and make him jealous. Perhaps that way I’ll win his heart. Act 2 Exit all. Enter the Mechanicals. Narrator 2: Now we go to the market where a busy scene greets us. Mechanicals mime working in their shops. Snug: Closing time! (everyone stops and gathers together) Quince: I’m Peter Quince a carpenter and play write. Is everyone here? Bottom: Nick Bottom the weaver here! Robin: Robin Starveling the tailor here! Snug: Snug the joiner here! Franics: Francis Flute the bellows mender here! Snout: Snout the tinker here! Quince: Good the play I’ve written for the Dukes wedding is the sad tale of Pyramus and Thisbe. You Bottom will be the star our leading man Pyramus and Francis our heroine Thisbe. W