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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Character Descriptions

ROYALS OF ATHENS

Theseus - Duke of Athens. He has recently returned from conquering the Amazons, a race of warrior women, and is about to marry Hippolyta, their Queen. Theseus is an extremely powerful ruler and conqueror, but out of his depth with marriage at the beginning of the play.

Hippolyta - The legendary warrior Queen of the Amazons engaged to marry Theseus. Hippolyta is a peacemaker as well as warrior and a challenging match for Theseus.

Egeus - A classic blocking parent, Egeus tries to control his/her headstrong

daughter’s love life. Never goes well.

Philostrate- Theseus’s Master of the Revels who organizes the wedding

entertainment.

THE LOVERS 

Lysander - Young man of Athens in love with Hermia. He recklessly persuades Hermia to elope with him into the forest.

Demetrius - Young man of Athens in love with Helena, then Hermia, then Helena.

Between his own fickle character and Puck’s mischief, Demetrius is tossed back and forth between the women.

Hermia - Egeus’s strong-willed daughter and childhood friend to Helena. Both

Demetrius and Lysander are in love with her . She is in love with Lysander . Shows a ferocious side when she thinks Lysander has deserted her .

Helena - A good friend of Hermia’s in love with Demetrius despite his humiliating

rejection of her advances. Love has no pride.

THE MECHANICALS– Working men/women of Athens who produce entertainmentfor the royal wedding - a Classical tale of Pyramus and Thisbe. They are:

Nick Bottom- An overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus. During

rehearsals, Puck and Oberon use magic to give him a donkey’s head and make

Queen Titania fall in love with him. 

Peter Quince- A carpenter and the writer/director of “Pyramus and Thisbe.”

Francis Flute- The bellows-mender cast as Thisbe.

Robin Starveling (m or f)- The tailor cast as Moonshine.

Snug- The joiner (carpenter) cast as Lion.

Tom Snout- The tinker (handyman) cast as the Wall, dividing Pyramus from

Thisbe.

THE FOREST nature spirits

Puck – (AKA Robin Goodfellow) (M/F) A spirit. He delights in playing pranks on mortals; he is Oberon’s out-of-control servant. He has a connection not only to the fairy and human worlds of the play, but also to the world of the audience.

Oberon - The King of the Fairies who rules with Titania. During the play they are

fighting over custody of a child Titania adopts in India. Oberon loves his queen but, like Theseus, has a lot to learn about sharing power.

Titania - Queen of the Fairies who rules with Oberon. Poetically articulates the damage being done to the natural world because of her power struggle with Oberon. It will take a comic magical transformation that humiliates both Oberon and Titania to reconcile them and bring nature back into balance.

Peaseblossom, Moth, Cobweb, and Mustardseed (M/F)– Fairies in Titania’s court who interact invisibly with the humans. Comic skills needed.