Shona Jaunas and her team actually understand the verse. They are true to Shakespeare throughout. Every couplet is performed, not just recited. Every aside leaves a rhyming cliff-hanger for the next scene.

Ben Wakefield’s Nick Bottom is hilarious and endearing – his timing and bodily contortions so Chaplinesque.

Gina Goad is triumphant as Titania – part lusty bar-room wench (but Regal, mind you), and part Zsa-Zsa Gabor in Green Acres; funny, physical and powerful.

Billy McGrath is a worthy and vaguely devilish Oberon.
Seth Leslie the confident-teen-idol Lysander; a stunning turn from Sophie Allen as Hermia, the flappy-motormouth-pouty-princess with a fiery temper and a good right hook; Jessie McKenzie the whining-how-is-this-happening-to-me Helena; and David Hobbis the nerdy-by-the-rules Demetrius. ​​https://www.theatreview.org.nz/production/a-midsummer-nights-dream-summer-shakespeare-campbell-park/#hot-sexy-truly-magic-it-goes-right-off