Question

the question is about Midsummer Night's Dream.

Imagine we were going to make this play into a prime time TV series. How could you translate this play in way that connected with audiences now? For example, who else could the Athenians be? A military regime?

Answer 1

The play Midsummer Night's Dream can be produced as a prime time TV series.

The serial will start showing the preparation going on for the wedding reception of a big politician Mr. X, there are lighting and people everywhere, who are doing their job of decoration.

Mr. comes to meet Mr. with his daughter Ms. B and her boyfriend C, along with the person with whom her marriage is fixed, Mr. D  

Mr. J is a gentleman who wanted his daughter to marry the person of his choice Mr. D but the girl is not ready to marry, she was very adamant and wanted to marry her boyfriend Mr. C, she flatly refused, in front of Mr. X as well as her father Mr.

This is America and not Athens we can take the serial somewhere in the era of eighty years back, The daughter and her boyfriend made a plan to run away and marry, they wanted to protest and marry of their choice. The moment they get the chance they ran away to the woods, to hide.

In the woods, the player who wanted to perform at weddings were coming to do the rehearsal, The lady AB who was madly in love with MR. D  was informed about the plans in order to get help form her from Ms. B.

Anyway the total commotion is in the jungle among the woods, where the boys who were performing in the ceremony come to practice and one more couple Mr. and Mrs. XY is also present among the woods, like a magic liquid Mr. XY tries to play some tricks and made mistake thus creating confusion among the people, and there will be magic trick that can make Ms. B start loving another's boyfriend and the little bit of fight and quarrel sequence can be put among the people.

The end can be like showing that the person Mr. XY realizes his mistake and tries to correct it by using his same magical tricks, and the people again come together like Ms. B finds her true lover Mr., C, the lady who was supposed to help the couple found her love in Mr. D and thus they all happily recognizes and got their love and looking at the intense love among the couples the father and the politicians accepted their love and gave them permission to marry.

Instead of the military regime, the series can be made as a drama some in the sequence of 80 years back, and the people can be all from the same time, because making the drama in the present era people would not accept it, as there is liberty and a person is free to have relations with anyone, a girl running away with the boyfriend would not make sense, the essence of the drama is loyalty and obedience.