Nicholas Koy Santillo, Jane May, Brittany Chandler & Ariana Karp conclude the discussion of A Midsummer Night's Dream with their musings upon Act V. These include, but are certainly not limited to:

• The accessibility of the mechanicals language and characters
• Drama vs Satire
• Doubling of Theseus/Oberon & Hippolyta/Titania & Philostrate/Puck 
• How Shakespeare exposes the very rhetorical techniques he masterfully employs in his other work and turns it upside down in the Mechanicals's play. 
• In the end, order and poetry is restored, but does Puck destabilize our order?
• We finish discussing Midsummer's place in our collective cultural consciousness. 

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Also for a contemporary equivalent to the Mechanicals play we want to give a big shout out to Mischief Theatre for The Play that Goes Wrong and congratulations on their Olivier win this year! If you are in London, go see it! (& on a related note….GO LAMDA!)