Today’s activity comes from the Drama Matters program! Today you will design your own stage makeup and costume design for the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. 

Read the following synopsis and background information to determine which character you will bring to life with costume and/or stage makeup. Create your looks using the attached pintables, or use the printables as a guide to create your own sketches. Share your designs with the hashtag #ClubAtHome.

Synopsis: The mischievous Puck decides to have fun with Bottom, an unskilled actor practicing for his big performance.

Roles: Bottom, Quince, Snout, Starveling, Puck, Flute, Titania, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed 

Background: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy about love gone awry when others intervene. In the following scene, a group of amateur actors go to the woods to rehearse a scene to be performed at an Athenian wedding. A group of fairies, led by Puck, who also narrates the play, cast a spell over one of the actors, giving him the head of a donkey. Titania, the queen of the fairies who has accidentally taken a potion which will cause her to fall in love with the first person she sees, wakes up to see Bottom and falls in love with him.