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]]> http://lindelcaine.deviantart.com/art/Vision-324041610 http://lindelcaine.deviantart.com/art/Vision-324041610 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:03:29 PDT Vision nonadult photography/journalism/docued LindelCaine http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/l/i/lindelcaine.png?3 Copyright 2012-2013 *LindelCaine
"Although there are 147 ophthalmologists in Nepal, around half are located in the urban areas, despite the fact that more than 90% of Nepal's blind population lives in rural areas. The effects of blindness impact the country socially and economically and of the 125 people who become blind in Nepal each day, seven are children." - The Fred Hollows Foundation.

During my time working in the rural, mountain villages of Nepal, I would see children and adults, especially girls and women, with blindness such as you see in this photograph. Either one or both eyes were like this. I learnt from villagers that this loss of sight is often caused through daily work, such as husking grain by hand, (work usually done by women and girls), - husks fly in the wind and can cut across the surface of eyes, these injuries can lead to blindness,- as was probably the case for this child. Working in the fields, harvesting crops etc. can also cause similar eye injuries. I also regularly saw people with cataract blindness, confining them to a minimal existence.

As the statement from The Fred Hollows Foundation makes clear, so few Doctors for eye care, mostly based in urban areas, is certainly insufficient to care for a mostly rural population of approximately 30.5 million.

Most villages in mountainous Nepal are far from any medical care, such as Doctors, Health Posts with paramedics, (rarely are there any doctors), or hospitals. For severe illness, usually only when a person is so ill that they may die, the sick person is carried on a villager's back, in a bamboo basket, ( modified for a person to sit in it ), or if it's possible (depending on how steep the path is that they must climb or descend), on a home made stretcher, trekking for several days or longer to get the person to some form of medical help. ... that is, IF a poor family can afford medical treatment,- many can't afford any at all. Sadly, there are deaths in Nepali villages, daily, often children, that could easily be prevented with adequate medical care.

So, in many cases of avoidable or curable blindness, such as eye infections or cataracts for example, be it adult or child, most people have just continued with life as best they can, often suffering in darkness, with little or no understanding that their sight can be restored and, anyway, most can't afford surgery. In the daily life of remote villages in Nepal, with it's many challenges, blindness can be an extreme physical and social hardship,- even leading to premature death.

"In the developing world,... In rural areas, a family member who becomes blind changes from being a contributor to a family burden. A husband cannot work in the fields, a mother cannot walk over rough terrain to take her goods to market, or collect water, and a child cannot attend school (if that is a possibility.)" - The Himalayan Cataract Project.

In Nepal, 80% of blindness is avoidable. 65% of all who are blind, suffer from cataracts that now can be removed with a brief surgical procedure.

There is "light in the darkness" to this story, again, quoting The Fred Hollows Foundation;-

"In 1980 a national Prevention of Blindness Program was established in Nepal but it was hampered by lack of equipment and training. Five years later, when Fred Hollows visited the country as a consultant for the World Health Organization, he met Dr Sanduk Ruit who was working on the program. They found they were both passionate about ending avoidable blindness in Nepal and, in 1988, the Nepal Eye Program Australia (NEPA) was established by Dr Ruit, Fred and Gabi Hollows, Tim Macartney-Snape and other friends and colleagues, with the aim of supporting Nepal’s program.

When The Fred Hollows Foundation was set up in 1992, NEPA came under The Foundation’s umbrella. In 1994, the Tilganga Eye Centre (incorporating the Fred Hollows Intraocular Lens Laboratory) was opened, just one year after Fred’s death. Dr Ruit was appointed Medical Director.

Today, The Foundation’s contribution to blindness prevention is a collaborative effort with what is now the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology (TIO), still led by the indefatigable Dr Ruit.

The Fred Hollows Foundation continues to provide funding for initiatives aimed at increasing the accessibility of eye care services to poor and remote communities in Nepal. The partnership's groundbreaking work has built facilities, trained staff, conducted outreach clinics, and implemented programs that make a real difference."

Now, each year, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, in collaborative partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation and The Himalayan Cataract Project, has clinics known as Outreach Microsurgical Eye Clinics (OMEC) traveling to remote areas of Nepal, (over 20 this year). These surgical teams give free eye surgery, (especially cataract surgery) to poor villagers. Numbers of local volunteers are involved and assist in the setting up and support of these clinics and surgical teams. TIO eye screening camps, give free eye examinations before and after the arrival of an outreach eye clinic in an area. Throughout each year, these eye camps regularly travel to various regions of the country offering free eye screening to village communities. In Kathmandu, intricate surgery such as cornea transplantation is performed at TIO, free of charge. Other surgery and medical services at Tilganga are subsidised, making it affordable for the poor, for those in hardship, treatment is free. Through eye clinics and various awareness programmes, people all over the country are now becoming more aware of causes of blindness and treatment. Many who had suffered for years with blindness that surgery can remedy, now, have their sight restored,- thanks to these mobile, in-the-field, with the communities, outreach clinics.

These clinics offer such a fine standard of eye health care, that the OMEC from TIO Nepal, have now treated people with impaired vision and curable blindness and trained doctors in their surgical techniques in other countries, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, North Korea and several African countries.

As well as eye surgery and care, training doctors and support staff, plus educational awareness programmes, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, in collaboration with The Fred Hollows Foundation, specializes in the production of world-class, state-of-the-art intraocular lenses (IOLs) for use in modern cataract surgery. These fine, affordable lenses are now exported to over 60 countries. TIO played a major role in helping refine and adapt a practical, safe and affordable technique of intraocular lens implant for cataract surgery in developing countries. TIO is continuously involved in research activities for the development of eye care.

This and much more (please see links) has become a reality due to the vision of Dr. Fred Hollows, his wife Gabi, Dr. Sanduk Ruit,- without Dr. Ruit's caring, determined dedication and his fine medical team, eye health care in Nepal would not be advancing as it is today,- Dr. Geoff Tabin, of the Himalayan Cataract Project and many others who care to improve life for people in need of eye care. The Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, The Fred Hollows Foundation and The Himalayan Cataract Project continue their wonderful collaborative work, restoring sight to thousands of people throughout Nepal every year.

At the time I captured the moment above on film (1991), there was little or nothing that could be done to help such blindness in remote areas of Nepal, however, since then this has changed dramatically and those with avoidable, curable blindness, eye disease or in need of glasses, no longer need to suffer as they did in the past and can again live a full life.

"It's such a small organ, the eye ... and what a big role it plays". - Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology.


* * * * *

In memory of Fred Hollows,... because he cared, took action and helped make a difference. His vision was of eliminating avoidable blindness from the world. Fred Hollows's legacy continues to improve lives in poor communities, in many countries, restoring sight to nearly a million people in the last five years.

If you wish to learn more ...

Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, [link]

The Fred Hollows Foundation, [link]

The Himalayan Cataract Project, [link]

A retrospective image, 100 ASA Fujichrome FILM, converted to B/W.

© Copyright 2012-13 Lindel Caine. All Rights Reserved. This image may not be reproduced, printed, manipulated or used in any way or form without my written permission. This image may not be transmitted, uploaded to or posted on sites or blogs other than deviantArt. Please respect this statement and Protect Creative Copyright. ]]>
"Although there are 147 ophthalmologists in Nepal, around half are located in the urban areas, despite the fact that more than 90% of Nepal's blind population lives in rural areas. The effects of blindness impact the country socially and economically and of the 125 people who become blind in Nepal each day, seven are children." - The Fred Hollows Foundation.

During my time working in the rural, mountain villages of Nepal, I would see children and adults, especially girls and women, with blindness such as you see in this photograph. Either one or both eyes were like this. I learnt from villagers that this loss of sight is often caused through daily work, such as husking grain by hand, (work usually done by women and girls), - husks fly in the wind and can cut across the surface of eyes, these injuries can lead to blindness,- as was probably the case for this child. Working in the fields, harvesting crops etc. can also cause similar eye injuries. I also regularly saw people with cataract blindness, confining them to a minimal existence.

As the statement from The Fred Hollows Foundation makes clear, so few Doctors for eye care, mostly based in urban areas, is certainly insufficient to care for a mostly rural population of approximately 30.5 million.

Most villages in mountainous Nepal are far from any medical care, such as Doctors, Health Posts with paramedics, (rarely are there any doctors), or hospitals. For severe illness, usually only when a person is so ill that they may die, the sick person is carried on a villager's back, in a bamboo basket, ( modified for a person to sit in it ), or if it's possible (depending on how steep the path is that they must climb or descend), on a home made stretcher, trekking for several days or longer to get the person to some form of medical help. ... that is, IF a poor family can afford medical treatment,- many can't afford any at all. Sadly, there are deaths in Nepali villages, daily, often children, that could easily be prevented with adequate medical care.

So, in many cases of avoidable or curable blindness, such as eye infections or cataracts for example, be it adult or child, most people have just continued with life as best they can, often suffering in darkness, with little or no understanding that their sight can be restored and, anyway, most can't afford surgery. In the daily life of remote villages in Nepal, with it's many challenges, blindness can be an extreme physical and social hardship,- even leading to premature death.

"In the developing world,... In rural areas, a family member who becomes blind changes from being a contributor to a family burden. A husband cannot work in the fields, a mother cannot walk over rough terrain to take her goods to market, or collect water, and a child cannot attend school (if that is a possibility.)" - The Himalayan Cataract Project.

In Nepal, 80% of blindness is avoidable. 65% of all who are blind, suffer from cataracts that now can be removed with a brief surgical procedure.

There is "light in the darkness" to this story, again, quoting The Fred Hollows Foundation;-

"In 1980 a national Prevention of Blindness Program was established in Nepal but it was hampered by lack of equipment and training. Five years later, when Fred Hollows visited the country as a consultant for the World Health Organization, he met Dr Sanduk Ruit who was working on the program. They found they were both passionate about ending avoidable blindness in Nepal and, in 1988, the Nepal Eye Program Australia (NEPA) was established by Dr Ruit, Fred and Gabi Hollows, Tim Macartney-Snape and other friends and colleagues, with the aim of supporting Nepal’s program.

When The Fred Hollows Foundation was set up in 1992, NEPA came under The Foundation’s umbrella. In 1994, the Tilganga Eye Centre (incorporating the Fred Hollows Intraocular Lens Laboratory) was opened, just one year after Fred’s death. Dr Ruit was appointed Medical Director.

Today, The Foundation’s contribution to blindness prevention is a collaborative effort with what is now the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology (TIO), still led by the indefatigable Dr Ruit.

The Fred Hollows Foundation continues to provide funding for initiatives aimed at increasing the accessibility of eye care services to poor and remote communities in Nepal. The partnership's groundbreaking work has built facilities, trained staff, conducted outreach clinics, and implemented programs that make a real difference."

Now, each year, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, in collaborative partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation and The Himalayan Cataract Project, has clinics known as Outreach Microsurgical Eye Clinics (OMEC) traveling to remote areas of Nepal, (over 20 this year). These surgical teams give free eye surgery, (especially cataract surgery) to poor villagers. Numbers of local volunteers are involved and assist in the setting up and support of these clinics and surgical teams. TIO eye screening camps, give free eye examinations before and after the arrival of an outreach eye clinic in an area. Throughout each year, these eye camps regularly travel to various regions of the country offering free eye screening to village communities. In Kathmandu, intricate surgery such as cornea transplantation is performed at TIO, free of charge. Other surgery and medical services at Tilganga are subsidised, making it affordable for the poor, for those in hardship, treatment is free. Through eye clinics and various awareness programmes, people all over the country are now becoming more aware of causes of blindness and treatment. Many who had suffered for years with blindness that surgery can remedy, now, have their sight restored,- thanks to these mobile, in-the-field, with the communities, outreach clinics.

These clinics offer such a fine standard of eye health care, that the OMEC from TIO Nepal, have now treated people with impaired vision and curable blindness and trained doctors in their surgical techniques in other countries, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, North Korea and several African countries.

As well as eye surgery and care, training doctors and support staff, plus educational awareness programmes, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, in collaboration with The Fred Hollows Foundation, specializes in the production of world-class, state-of-the-art intraocular lenses (IOLs) for use in modern cataract surgery. These fine, affordable lenses are now exported to over 60 countries. TIO played a major role in helping refine and adapt a practical, safe and affordable technique of intraocular lens implant for cataract surgery in developing countries. TIO is continuously involved in research activities for the development of eye care.

This and much more (please see links) has become a reality due to the vision of Dr. Fred Hollows, his wife Gabi, Dr. Sanduk Ruit,- without Dr. Ruit's caring, determined dedication and his fine medical team, eye health care in Nepal would not be advancing as it is today,- Dr. Geoff Tabin, of the Himalayan Cataract Project and many others who care to improve life for people in need of eye care. The Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, The Fred Hollows Foundation and The Himalayan Cataract Project continue their wonderful collaborative work, restoring sight to thousands of people throughout Nepal every year.

At the time I captured the moment above on film (1991), there was little or nothing that could be done to help such blindness in remote areas of Nepal, however, since then this has changed dramatically and those with avoidable, curable blindness, eye disease or in need of glasses, no longer need to suffer as they did in the past and can again live a full life.

"It's such a small organ, the eye ... and what a big role it plays". - Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology.


* * * * *

In memory of Fred Hollows,... because he cared, took action and helped make a difference. His vision was of eliminating avoidable blindness from the world. Fred Hollows's legacy continues to improve lives in poor communities, in many countries, restoring sight to nearly a million people in the last five years.

If you wish to learn more ...

Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, [link]

The Fred Hollows Foundation, [link]

The Himalayan Cataract Project, [link]

A retrospective image, 100 ASA Fujichrome FILM, converted to B/W.

© Copyright 2012-13 Lindel Caine. All Rights Reserved. This image may not be reproduced, printed, manipulated or used in any way or form without my written permission. This image may not be transmitted, uploaded to or posted on sites or blogs other than deviantArt. Please respect this statement and Protect Creative Copyright.

]]> http://anthonyasael.deviantart.com/art/Working-in-Bangladesh-1of4-39104345 http://anthonyasael.deviantart.com/art/Working-in-Bangladesh-1of4-39104345 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:21:45 PDT Working in Bangladesh 1of4 nonadult photography/journalism/people anthonyasael http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/n/anthonyasael.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 `anthonyasael [link]

Bangladesh has one of the most vulnerable economies, characterized by extremely high population density, low resource base, and high incidence of natural disasters. These have adverse implications for long-term savings, investment, and growth. Such defining features impart certain uniqueness to the formulation of the poverty reduction strategy.

However, Bangladesh has done remarkably well in its drive to meet the 8 Millennium Goals, and in fact is one of the world's leaders in terms of change, universal education, the goal of access to water points, and the Millennium Development Goals of infant mortality, child mortality under the age of five.
Bangladesh has done especially well in reducing extreme poverty, the first and primary MDG (see [link]), as the percentage of population living on less than one dollar a day has reduced from one-third to about 40 per cent over the last decade. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation, primary school enrolments and primary health care have also seen improvements

How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal ([link]) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates. In 2002, for example, male literacy rates were 71 percent among 20-24 year olds, compared to 55 percent for females.
In the school we worked, most of the teachers were dynamic women. Creating awareness and sensitiveness is also to the success. I hope Bangladesh can be an excellent example to other countries as these signs of improvement indicate that development is possible. Bangladesh which was once termed ‘the test case of development’ may indeed represent a learning site for keeping the hopes alive for other equally less fortunate post-colonial societies with adverse initial conditions. This would be especially important in the context of overcoming the persistent economic pessimism and hopelessness—‘Afro-pessimism’ is a case in point--that is often cited in relation to the most disadvantaged parts of the developing world.

Because, let’s not forget that by the end of the day, more than 800 million people go to bed without food, and 30,000 children die from poverty, malnutrition and diseases. They are devoid of basic social and economic rights -- the rights to food, shelter, water, health and education. It is time to voice our concerns about these global challenges. Our generation is the very first in history that had the possibility and the ability to feed every hungry person on earth. We had the technology, we had the food -- we just didn't have the will. And that's where the Millennium Goals come in…

All proceeds from sales of pictures will go to the art education project of Art in All of Us (WWW.ARTINALLOFUS.ORG) and/or trusted partner in third world countries ]]> [link]

Bangladesh has one of the most vulnerable economies, characterized by extremely high population density, low resource base, and high incidence of natural disasters. These have adverse implications for long-term savings, investment, and growth. Such defining features impart certain uniqueness to the formulation of the poverty reduction strategy.

However, Bangladesh has done remarkably well in its drive to meet the 8 Millennium Goals, and in fact is one of the world's leaders in terms of change, universal education, the goal of access to water points, and the Millennium Development Goals of infant mortality, child mortality under the age of five.
Bangladesh has done especially well in reducing extreme poverty, the first and primary MDG (see [link]), as the percentage of population living on less than one dollar a day has reduced from one-third to about 40 per cent over the last decade. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation, primary school enrolments and primary health care have also seen improvements

How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal ([link]) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates. In 2002, for example, male literacy rates were 71 percent among 20-24 year olds, compared to 55 percent for females.
In the school we worked, most of the teachers were dynamic women. Creating awareness and sensitiveness is also to the success. I hope Bangladesh can be an excellent example to other countries as these signs of improvement indicate that development is possible. Bangladesh which was once termed ‘the test case of development’ may indeed represent a learning site for keeping the hopes alive for other equally less fortunate post-colonial societies with adverse initial conditions. This would be especially important in the context of overcoming the persistent economic pessimism and hopelessness—‘Afro-pessimism’ is a case in point--that is often cited in relation to the most disadvantaged parts of the developing world.

Because, let’s not forget that by the end of the day, more than 800 million people go to bed without food, and 30,000 children die from poverty, malnutrition and diseases. They are devoid of basic social and economic rights -- the rights to food, shelter, water, health and education. It is time to voice our concerns about these global challenges. Our generation is the very first in history that had the possibility and the ability to feed every hungry person on earth. We had the technology, we had the food -- we just didn't have the will. And that's where the Millennium Goals come in…

All proceeds from sales of pictures will go to the art education project of Art in All of Us (WWW.ARTINALLOFUS.ORG) and/or trusted partner in third world countries

]]> http://contains-mild-peril.deviantart.com/art/For-The-Win-52124979 http://contains-mild-peril.deviantart.com/art/For-The-Win-52124979 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:43:06 PDT For The Win nonadult photography/journalism/sports contains-mild-peril http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/c/o/contains-mild-peril.jpg Copyright 2007-2013 `contains-mild-peril photosimian a hand with some sport stuff he needed covering (as in he couldn't be bothered).

It's a hard life watching attractive ladies running around.

I don't usually post sports shots simply because I leave once I have a good shot for publication. Stuck around this time and got all creative. ]]> photosimian a hand with some sport stuff he needed covering (as in he couldn't be bothered).

It's a hard life watching attractive ladies running around.

I don't usually post sports shots simply because I leave once I have a good shot for publication. Stuck around this time and got all creative.

]]> http://drewhammond.deviantart.com/art/CatFight-Pose-Battling-Models-282248888 http://drewhammond.deviantart.com/art/CatFight-Pose-Battling-Models-282248888 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:47:29 PST CatFight Pose:Battling Models adult photography/journalism/people drewhammond http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/d/r/drewhammond.jpg Copyright 2012-2013 *drewhammond
Classic Punches And Poses: This series is dedicated to visually depicting all the classic punches, as well as the various classic victory and loss poses in the combative women realm. One could say this folder is orientated toward the: ‘Classics Of Fighting’.

This is the title I gave this photograph because of its descriptive nature as well as it being apropos to both the scene and action. The owner of this picture, my good friend, Ed Hunter, had titled it: ‘Cat Models’. Now, there are times when I’ll change or modify this friend’s titles, and this is one of those times. And he has no problem with this because Ed has granted me a poetic artistic.

So what’s going on here? First some background. Back in 1992 an amateur female wrestler named Barbara changed the world of female versus female recreational combat forever by creating a website devoted to combative women. In the main, it was oriented toward women wrestlers, but she permitted all of the other combative elements into her site too. As she stated, the site was created and run by a woman, for women, about women wrestling women. This site continued until the fall of 2006, when the hassles of visiting malcontents, ill health, and need to devote more time to her business and husband forced her to close it down. I knew Barbara, ‘The Doctor’ (She wasn’t a MD, she had a Doctoral Degree) on a personal bases – Though it was physically distant (She in New York, I in California), and I considered her a brilliant writer; and as an essayist, she was a flat out genius. As you are about to read.
Now, we both have powerful personalities, and disagreed on a number of matters, but concerning the following photograph, we both agree that it is a catfight masterwork. A classic photograph. On her website she did a lengthy essay on catfight photography, and the fantasy aspect. The following tome is my edited condensation of this essay – Concentrating on this particular picture:

“The predominant art form to focus on combative women is photography. That's logical because this interest and the fantasies that enrich it are visual. You're either doing it, watching it, or thinking about what it looks like. And, because the fantasy is driven by a reality that women DO in fact fight each other, the easiest way to creatively address the fantasy is by showing the real thing in a photograph.
Because photographers are artists, there is a fairly large body of ‘Through The Lens’ art that transcends the camera's technological restrictions, and thereby transforms the photograph into something approaching a fantasy painting. And, because computer technology makes that transformation much more feasible and quicker than other means, it's only logical that much of this art would be found on the Internet.
Some artists straddle the fence between fantasy and reality by ‘Setups’. And that is the case with the following setup photograph. After all we are dealing with male fantasy here – In the main. True, there are those women who also fantasize about such encounters, but it’s the men who do the heavy lifting money-wise.
There is a ‘However’ to all this and the following is one of the most ‘Woman Oriented’ fantasy photos I have ever seen. This basement catfight attack is meant to burn an image into our brain – No, more than that, it takes us on a journey deep into the darkest sectors of our subconscious. Deeper than that fist sinking into that rival model’s gut. The photographer has stripped away almost all the background and suspends his two models in some blank space, not unlike our subconscious mind. There, vicariously through these models, we are left to fight with ourselves; our darkest fears; our cowardly inhibitions; and that horrible self we are too often angry and disappointed with. There are times when we women think just like men. If we have the courage to admit it to ourselves – And to them.
Although this is ‘Staged’, this photo is a transformation of sorts, and admittedly damn realistic. What's transforming about it is the framing of the shot and the position of the two bodies. The lines of this photograph rival that of the best line artist: Everything is perfectly aligned so that the two bodies almost become one, in a celebration of the sensuality of the wonderful anticipation of the activity of physical combat. Look at the way the dominating woman's head almost melts into her opponent's face! Yet, as we watch their moving in on each other – The entwining, so to speak, we are reminded that these are, in fact, two different women; because one is dressed in white and the other in black. The point is starkly reinforced by the dark and light background. It evokes an important point about a fantasy. Two different women become ONE in a fight because they are, after all, one fantasy.
And it has a name: ‘Catfight’.”

Variations on a theme: At first glance one would think that there aren’t that many variations in the boxing genre of punches and poses. In the beginning (to be a bit biblical) that is what I thought too, and as such figured that this would be a small ‘Group Folder’. Wrong! So wrong. I’ve been uploading these images at the rate of one per day and hereon are listed the main titles so far. And growing:

Classic Punch
Classic Punches
Classic CounterPunch
Sex Punch
Unfair Punch

Classic Pose
Funny Pose
Defiant Pose
Ropes Pose
KO Pose
Fantasy Pose
Ring Pose
Classic Nude Pose
Bloody Pose
Sparring Pose
Clinch Pose
Historical Pose
CatFight Pose

Classic Right Jab

Boxing MasterPiece
Fistfight MasterPiece

‘CatFight Pose: Battling Models. Most of those ‘In The Know’ consider this a stunning masterpiece in photographic art. Sure, it’s a staged encounter between rival models, but that should not take away from the sheer power of the piece. As mentioned before, my friend Barbara wrote an essay on catfight photography, and here are some of her additional thoughts on this photo:

“There is such a willful clash of physical strength that seeds this fantasy. These are not physically powerfully built women; these are slim New York models after all. And yet the emotional drive of ‘The Woman In Black’ attacking her ‘Woman In White’ opponent shows that she, and the viewer, are certain that the ultimate victory will be hers. They possess almost sculpted figures, and it could well be a hard fought battle, and as such lends an erotic note concerning their body language. But the shot itself of the actual tangling of the fighters makes it an almost dream-like fantasy – A true transformation. Previously I mentioned the myriad photos on this site, most of which come from commercial vendors. While so many are excellent, some transcend the mere replication of the action in order to explore the emotions of the fighters, or even the reactions of the viewer.
Unleashed are two women, both of whom will face off against her own image, confronting the demons, and the fears, and the sometimes self-destructive anger that are the emotions of a fight. Look at the rich material the photographer gives us! Look at the detail. This is a private fight in a basement. This fight just ‘Broke Out’ without prior arrangement. Subliminally promising that blood is soon to flow.”

‘Nuff said. Drew. ]]>
Classic Punches And Poses: This series is dedicated to visually depicting all the classic punches, as well as the various classic victory and loss poses in the combative women realm. One could say this folder is orientated toward the: ‘Classics Of Fighting’.

This is the title I gave this photograph because of its descriptive nature as well as it being apropos to both the scene and action. The owner of this picture, my good friend, Ed Hunter, had titled it: ‘Cat Models’. Now, there are times when I’ll change or modify this friend’s titles, and this is one of those times. And he has no problem with this because Ed has granted me a poetic artistic.

So what’s going on here? First some background. Back in 1992 an amateur female wrestler named Barbara changed the world of female versus female recreational combat forever by creating a website devoted to combative women. In the main, it was oriented toward women wrestlers, but she permitted all of the other combative elements into her site too. As she stated, the site was created and run by a woman, for women, about women wrestling women. This site continued until the fall of 2006, when the hassles of visiting malcontents, ill health, and need to devote more time to her business and husband forced her to close it down. I knew Barbara, ‘The Doctor’ (She wasn’t a MD, she had a Doctoral Degree) on a personal bases – Though it was physically distant (She in New York, I in California), and I considered her a brilliant writer; and as an essayist, she was a flat out genius. As you are about to read.
Now, we both have powerful personalities, and disagreed on a number of matters, but concerning the following photograph, we both agree that it is a catfight masterwork. A classic photograph. On her website she did a lengthy essay on catfight photography, and the fantasy aspect. The following tome is my edited condensation of this essay – Concentrating on this particular picture:

“The predominant art form to focus on combative women is photography. That's logical because this interest and the fantasies that enrich it are visual. You're either doing it, watching it, or thinking about what it looks like. And, because the fantasy is driven by a reality that women DO in fact fight each other, the easiest way to creatively address the fantasy is by showing the real thing in a photograph.
Because photographers are artists, there is a fairly large body of ‘Through The Lens’ art that transcends the camera's technological restrictions, and thereby transforms the photograph into something approaching a fantasy painting. And, because computer technology makes that transformation much more feasible and quicker than other means, it's only logical that much of this art would be found on the Internet.
Some artists straddle the fence between fantasy and reality by ‘Setups’. And that is the case with the following setup photograph. After all we are dealing with male fantasy here – In the main. True, there are those women who also fantasize about such encounters, but it’s the men who do the heavy lifting money-wise.
There is a ‘However’ to all this and the following is one of the most ‘Woman Oriented’ fantasy photos I have ever seen. This basement catfight attack is meant to burn an image into our brain – No, more than that, it takes us on a journey deep into the darkest sectors of our subconscious. Deeper than that fist sinking into that rival model’s gut. The photographer has stripped away almost all the background and suspends his two models in some blank space, not unlike our subconscious mind. There, vicariously through these models, we are left to fight with ourselves; our darkest fears; our cowardly inhibitions; and that horrible self we are too often angry and disappointed with. There are times when we women think just like men. If we have the courage to admit it to ourselves – And to them.
Although this is ‘Staged’, this photo is a transformation of sorts, and admittedly damn realistic. What's transforming about it is the framing of the shot and the position of the two bodies. The lines of this photograph rival that of the best line artist: Everything is perfectly aligned so that the two bodies almost become one, in a celebration of the sensuality of the wonderful anticipation of the activity of physical combat. Look at the way the dominating woman's head almost melts into her opponent's face! Yet, as we watch their moving in on each other – The entwining, so to speak, we are reminded that these are, in fact, two different women; because one is dressed in white and the other in black. The point is starkly reinforced by the dark and light background. It evokes an important point about a fantasy. Two different women become ONE in a fight because they are, after all, one fantasy.
And it has a name: ‘Catfight’.”

Variations on a theme: At first glance one would think that there aren’t that many variations in the boxing genre of punches and poses. In the beginning (to be a bit biblical) that is what I thought too, and as such figured that this would be a small ‘Group Folder’. Wrong! So wrong. I’ve been uploading these images at the rate of one per day and hereon are listed the main titles so far. And growing:

Classic Punch
Classic Punches
Classic CounterPunch
Sex Punch
Unfair Punch

Classic Pose
Funny Pose
Defiant Pose
Ropes Pose
KO Pose
Fantasy Pose
Ring Pose
Classic Nude Pose
Bloody Pose
Sparring Pose
Clinch Pose
Historical Pose
CatFight Pose

Classic Right Jab

Boxing MasterPiece
Fistfight MasterPiece

‘CatFight Pose: Battling Models. Most of those ‘In The Know’ consider this a stunning masterpiece in photographic art. Sure, it’s a staged encounter between rival models, but that should not take away from the sheer power of the piece. As mentioned before, my friend Barbara wrote an essay on catfight photography, and here are some of her additional thoughts on this photo:

“There is such a willful clash of physical strength that seeds this fantasy. These are not physically powerfully built women; these are slim New York models after all. And yet the emotional drive of ‘The Woman In Black’ attacking her ‘Woman In White’ opponent shows that she, and the viewer, are certain that the ultimate victory will be hers. They possess almost sculpted figures, and it could well be a hard fought battle, and as such lends an erotic note concerning their body language. But the shot itself of the actual tangling of the fighters makes it an almost dream-like fantasy – A true transformation. Previously I mentioned the myriad photos on this site, most of which come from commercial vendors. While so many are excellent, some transcend the mere replication of the action in order to explore the emotions of the fighters, or even the reactions of the viewer.
Unleashed are two women, both of whom will face off against her own image, confronting the demons, and the fears, and the sometimes self-destructive anger that are the emotions of a fight. Look at the rich material the photographer gives us! Look at the detail. This is a private fight in a basement. This fight just ‘Broke Out’ without prior arrangement. Subliminally promising that blood is soon to flow.”

‘Nuff said. Drew.

]]> http://anthonyasael.deviantart.com/art/Working-in-Bangladesh-2of4-39104678 http://anthonyasael.deviantart.com/art/Working-in-Bangladesh-2of4-39104678 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:32:18 PDT Working in Bangladesh 2of4 nonadult photography/journalism/people anthonyasael http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/n/anthonyasael.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 `anthonyasael “Yes, we can do it”…..

We spend some wonderful days in the very dynamic Baliadanga Government Primary School of Jessore, South West Bangladesh. Thanks to our partner the Unicef, we have been introduced to this model school. The kids work has been amazing and very creative. You can see some of them at the following link
[link]

Bangladesh has one of the most vulnerable economies, characterized by extremely high population density, low resource base, and high incidence of natural disasters. These have adverse implications for long-term savings, investment, and growth. Such defining features impart certain uniqueness to the formulation of the poverty reduction strategy.

However, Bangladesh has done remarkably well in its drive to meet the 8 Millennium Goals, and in fact is one of the world's leaders in terms of change, universal education, the goal of access to water points, and the Millennium Development Goals of infant mortality, child mortality under the age of five.
Bangladesh has done especially well in reducing extreme poverty, the first and primary MDG (see [link]), as the percentage of population living on less than one dollar a day has reduced from one-third to about 40 per cent over the last decade. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation, primary school enrolments and primary health care have also seen improvements

How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal ([link]) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates. In 2002, for example, male literacy rates were 71 percent among 20-24 year olds, compared to 55 percent for females.
In the school we worked, most of the teachers were dynamic women. Creating awareness and sensitiveness is also to the success. I hope Bangladesh can be an excellent example to other countries as these signs of improvement indicate that development is possible. Bangladesh which was once termed ‘the test case of development’ may indeed represent a learning site for keeping the hopes alive for other equally less fortunate post-colonial societies with adverse initial conditions. This would be especially important in the context of overcoming the persistent economic pessimism and hopelessness—‘Afro-pessimism’ is a case in point--that is often cited in relation to the most disadvantaged parts of the developing world.

Because, let’s not forget that by the end of the day, more than 800 million people go to bed without food, and 30,000 children die from poverty, malnutrition and diseases. They are devoid of basic social and economic rights -- the rights to food, shelter, water, health and education. It is time to voice our concerns about these global challenges. Our generation is the very first in history that had the possibility and the ability to feed every hungry person on earth. We had the technology, we had the food -- we just didn't have the will. And that's where the Millennium Goals come in…

All proceeds from sales of pictures will go to the art education project of Art in All of Us (WWW.ARTINALLOFUS.ORG) and/or trusted partner in third world countries ]]> “Yes, we can do it”…..

We spend some wonderful days in the very dynamic Baliadanga Government Primary School of Jessore, South West Bangladesh. Thanks to our partner the Unicef, we have been introduced to this model school. The kids work has been amazing and very creative. You can see some of them at the following link
[link]

Bangladesh has one of the most vulnerable economies, characterized by extremely high population density, low resource base, and high incidence of natural disasters. These have adverse implications for long-term savings, investment, and growth. Such defining features impart certain uniqueness to the formulation of the poverty reduction strategy.

However, Bangladesh has done remarkably well in its drive to meet the 8 Millennium Goals, and in fact is one of the world's leaders in terms of change, universal education, the goal of access to water points, and the Millennium Development Goals of infant mortality, child mortality under the age of five.
Bangladesh has done especially well in reducing extreme poverty, the first and primary MDG (see [link]), as the percentage of population living on less than one dollar a day has reduced from one-third to about 40 per cent over the last decade. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation, primary school enrolments and primary health care have also seen improvements

How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal ([link]) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates. In 2002, for example, male literacy rates were 71 percent among 20-24 year olds, compared to 55 percent for females.
In the school we worked, most of the teachers were dynamic women. Creating awareness and sensitiveness is also to the success. I hope Bangladesh can be an excellent example to other countries as these signs of improvement indicate that development is possible. Bangladesh which was once termed ‘the test case of development’ may indeed represent a learning site for keeping the hopes alive for other equally less fortunate post-colonial societies with adverse initial conditions. This would be especially important in the context of overcoming the persistent economic pessimism and hopelessness—‘Afro-pessimism’ is a case in point--that is often cited in relation to the most disadvantaged parts of the developing world.

Because, let’s not forget that by the end of the day, more than 800 million people go to bed without food, and 30,000 children die from poverty, malnutrition and diseases. They are devoid of basic social and economic rights -- the rights to food, shelter, water, health and education. It is time to voice our concerns about these global challenges. Our generation is the very first in history that had the possibility and the ability to feed every hungry person on earth. We had the technology, we had the food -- we just didn't have the will. And that's where the Millennium Goals come in…

All proceeds from sales of pictures will go to the art education project of Art in All of Us (WWW.ARTINALLOFUS.ORG) and/or trusted partner in third world countries

]]> http://naturepunk.deviantart.com/art/Burning-Man-I-m-NAKED-258554847 http://naturepunk.deviantart.com/art/Burning-Man-I-m-NAKED-258554847 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:27:14 PDT Burning Man: I'm NAKED nonadult photography/journalism/gatherings NaturePunk http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/n/a/naturepunk.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 ~NaturePunk
Public nudity is commonplace at Burning Man, as is occasional drug use and drinking. But despite this, I don't recall a SINGLE negative incident taking place over the course of the entire week-long festival. What this tells me is that drug use, debauchery, and a lack of law enforcement doesn't necessarily constitute the automatic need to freak out and wreak havoc. It's a party atmosphere, yet everyone gets along, and the feeling of peace which blankets the Playa during this time is its own form of law enforcement.

Burning Man is like some kind of post-apocalyptic desert-dwelling colony which has perfected the art of anarchy.

I was raised by Punks, and I was once an anarchist. I wanted to change the world and release society from the System which strove to brainwash us all. So I threw rocks at riot shields and climbed the walls of City Hall and shouted insults at police officers and soldiers on the MAX train. I thought that Anarchy could only be achieved through violence - by FIGHTING the System. And what is borne of violence is, in turn, violent in nature. Anarchy, then, was not a peaceful concept to me, but it was freedom, and I felt justified.

It's been years since I considered myself an Anarchist, though the idea is still appealing to me in that I'd be perfectly capable and ready to survive in a world without order (this is another contributing factor in my decision to pursue wilderness survival training, in case you were wondering).

At any rate, Burning Man changed my perception of Anarchy from something violent and impossible to achieve to something peaceful and (surprisingly) quite REAL. You're allowed to do anything you want, as long as it doesn't impede on others' ability to enjoy Black Rock City. So the porta-potties are covered in poetry, the street signs have been changed from names like "Divorce" to "DOUBLE RAINBOW!" and nearly everywhere you look, someone is expressing their creativity to the rest of the Playa in a manner that is totally and completely their own (one man was riding by on his bike, telling all the women what their tits looked like at the top of his lungs. He said, "Your breasts are like puckered lips, waiting for a kiss!" as he passed by me. My expression was probably the dictionary definition of "WHAT THE FUCK?!"). ]]>
Public nudity is commonplace at Burning Man, as is occasional drug use and drinking. But despite this, I don't recall a SINGLE negative incident taking place over the course of the entire week-long festival. What this tells me is that drug use, debauchery, and a lack of law enforcement doesn't necessarily constitute the automatic need to freak out and wreak havoc. It's a party atmosphere, yet everyone gets along, and the feeling of peace which blankets the Playa during this time is its own form of law enforcement.

Burning Man is like some kind of post-apocalyptic desert-dwelling colony which has perfected the art of anarchy.

I was raised by Punks, and I was once an anarchist. I wanted to change the world and release society from the System which strove to brainwash us all. So I threw rocks at riot shields and climbed the walls of City Hall and shouted insults at police officers and soldiers on the MAX train. I thought that Anarchy could only be achieved through violence - by FIGHTING the System. And what is borne of violence is, in turn, violent in nature. Anarchy, then, was not a peaceful concept to me, but it was freedom, and I felt justified.

It's been years since I considered myself an Anarchist, though the idea is still appealing to me in that I'd be perfectly capable and ready to survive in a world without order (this is another contributing factor in my decision to pursue wilderness survival training, in case you were wondering).

At any rate, Burning Man changed my perception of Anarchy from something violent and impossible to achieve to something peaceful and (surprisingly) quite REAL. You're allowed to do anything you want, as long as it doesn't impede on others' ability to enjoy Black Rock City. So the porta-potties are covered in poetry, the street signs have been changed from names like "Divorce" to "DOUBLE RAINBOW!" and nearly everywhere you look, someone is expressing their creativity to the rest of the Playa in a manner that is totally and completely their own (one man was riding by on his bike, telling all the women what their tits looked like at the top of his lungs. He said, "Your breasts are like puckered lips, waiting for a kiss!" as he passed by me. My expression was probably the dictionary definition of "WHAT THE FUCK?!").

]]> http://sprocket-man.deviantart.com/art/Urban-SAS-Soldier-156909779 http://sprocket-man.deviantart.com/art/Urban-SAS-Soldier-156909779 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:55:45 PST Urban SAS Soldier nonadult photography/journalism/military Sprocket-man http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/s/p/sprocket-man.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 ~Sprocket-man http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
And yes that is a 4Chan Smiley painted onto his Silencer XD

This is probably My Favourite photo ive ever taken


Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
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As ive seen some of my Pics getting stolen and used in magazines and stuff without credit i simply ask that i am Notified and Asked for permission before you use any of my photos outside of DeviantArt, Thankyou ]]>
And yes that is a 4Chan Smiley painted onto his Silencer XD

This is probably My Favourite photo ive ever taken


Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

As ive seen some of my Pics getting stolen and used in magazines and stuff without credit i simply ask that i am Notified and Asked for permission before you use any of my photos outside of DeviantArt, Thankyou

]]> http://rowanraine.deviantart.com/art/Marine-Corp-Color-Guard-145390658 http://rowanraine.deviantart.com/art/Marine-Corp-Color-Guard-145390658 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:04:32 PST Marine Corp Color Guard nonadult photography/journalism/military RowanRaine http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/r/o/rowanraine.jpg?7 Copyright 2009-2013 *RowanRaine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Permission
(Reusing this image) Public domain as a work of the United States Marine Corps: "This photograph is considered public domain and has been cleared for release.


USMC Color Guard

Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. Marine Corps Marine or employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. republish please give the photographer appropriate credit."



Escort

If the red shirt thing is new to you, read below how it went for a man...

Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together.

After we boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from me), and inquired if he was heading home.

No, he responded.
Heading out I asked?

No. I'm escorting a soldier home.

Going to pick him up?

No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq , I'm taking him home to his family.

The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he knew them after many conversations in so few days.

I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do.

Upon landing in Chicago the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the forward door to allow Sergeant Steeley to deplane and receive his fellow soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign."

Without a sound, all went as requested. I noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the plane, and his action made me realize that I am proud to be an American.

So here's a public Thank You to our military Men and Women for what you do so we can live the way we do.

Red Fridays.

Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the "silent majority." We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing.

Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast major ity of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that .... every red-blooded American who supports our men and women a far, will wear something red.

By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of red much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers.. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the once "silent" majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the media lets on..

The first thing a soldier says when asked "What can we do to make things better for you?" is. "We need your support and your prayers." Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something red every Friday.

It just seemed like the thing to post this morning...


The Creative Commons license was posted at the site I downloaded this from. That is why I am including it here. ]]> Permission
(Reusing this image) Public domain as a work of the United States Marine Corps: "This photograph is considered public domain and has been cleared for release.


USMC Color Guard

Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. Marine Corps Marine or employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. republish please give the photographer appropriate credit."



Escort

If the red shirt thing is new to you, read below how it went for a man...

Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together.

After we boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from me), and inquired if he was heading home.

No, he responded.
Heading out I asked?

No. I'm escorting a soldier home.

Going to pick him up?

No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq , I'm taking him home to his family.

The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he knew them after many conversations in so few days.

I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do.

Upon landing in Chicago the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the forward door to allow Sergeant Steeley to deplane and receive his fellow soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign."

Without a sound, all went as requested. I noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the plane, and his action made me realize that I am proud to be an American.

So here's a public Thank You to our military Men and Women for what you do so we can live the way we do.

Red Fridays.

Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the "silent majority." We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing.

Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast major ity of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that .... every red-blooded American who supports our men and women a far, will wear something red.

By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of red much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers.. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the once "silent" majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the media lets on..

The first thing a soldier says when asked "What can we do to make things better for you?" is. "We need your support and your prayers." Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something red every Friday.

It just seemed like the thing to post this morning...


The Creative Commons license was posted at the site I downloaded this from. That is why I am including it here.

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-3-367960970 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-3-367960970 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:28:52 PDT Emerge 3 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://artngame215.deviantart.com/art/Table-34-from-Sexual-Behavior-in-the-Human-Male-322955490 http://artngame215.deviantart.com/art/Table-34-from-Sexual-Behavior-in-the-Human-Male-322955490 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:42:49 PDT Table 34 from Sexual Behavior in the Human Male nonadult photography/journalism/other ArtNGame215 http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/r/artngame215.png?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~ArtNGame215
26% of women had extramarital affairs by the 40th birthday.

50% of husbands cheated on their wives.

10% of men were homosexual.

37% of all males report having at least 1 homosexual experience in their life.

Kinsey interviewed thousands of men and later women and asked them between 300 to 500 questions about their sex life.

Alfred Kinsey is considered by many as the father of the sexual revolution. Helping the U.S. and the world accept that we are all sexual beings and to make sexuality more open and acceptable to face publicially. Even children are sexual beings according to him.

But according to Dr. Judith Reisman, Kinsey's findings are a big fraud and his research has helped to make child abuse and other sexual behaviors more accepting.

I strongly recommend watching this documentary called The Kinsey Syndrome. It's more than 2 hours long, but worth it. If you can't watch it all in one sitting, at least watch some and watch the rest later.

[link]

Some surprising things found include:

Kinsey using mainly prisoners in his research.

Research funded by the Rockafellers. The Rockafeller family has been around a long time, helps fund corruption and they will help the upcoming New World Order come in easier, since they are involved in politics.

Children being part of the research, being sexually abused, involving stopwatches. The chart shown above explains it all.

Kinsey's reports having a big influence on the popularity in porn magazines and even sexual cartoons put in those magazines. Most of these cartoons involve men trying to be creative in fufilling their sexual fantasies with women and children.

NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) uses Kinsey as an influence to say why relationships between grown men and young boys is a good thing.

Kinsey being interested in Satanism, by showing curiousity in it's founder.

All the research and findings were manipulated with an agenda to make perverted behavior more acceptable.

And theres more. Much of Dr. Judith Reisman's research is found in this documentary but Left Wing, pro porn advocates claim she's crazy, talk of how good Kinsey's findings have done to advance sexuality in society, including health benefits.

I reccomend watching all of The Kinsey Syndrome. I think all Christians and churches should see this since there is so much being covered up by Kinsey's institution and how he's being hailed as a hero by liberals and Christians need as much proof as possible to show how much those findings have contributed to the corruption of soceity in the world. ]]>
26% of women had extramarital affairs by the 40th birthday.

50% of husbands cheated on their wives.

10% of men were homosexual.

37% of all males report having at least 1 homosexual experience in their life.

Kinsey interviewed thousands of men and later women and asked them between 300 to 500 questions about their sex life.

Alfred Kinsey is considered by many as the father of the sexual revolution. Helping the U.S. and the world accept that we are all sexual beings and to make sexuality more open and acceptable to face publicially. Even children are sexual beings according to him.

But according to Dr. Judith Reisman, Kinsey's findings are a big fraud and his research has helped to make child abuse and other sexual behaviors more accepting.

I strongly recommend watching this documentary called The Kinsey Syndrome. It's more than 2 hours long, but worth it. If you can't watch it all in one sitting, at least watch some and watch the rest later.

[link]

Some surprising things found include:

Kinsey using mainly prisoners in his research.

Research funded by the Rockafellers. The Rockafeller family has been around a long time, helps fund corruption and they will help the upcoming New World Order come in easier, since they are involved in politics.

Children being part of the research, being sexually abused, involving stopwatches. The chart shown above explains it all.

Kinsey's reports having a big influence on the popularity in porn magazines and even sexual cartoons put in those magazines. Most of these cartoons involve men trying to be creative in fufilling their sexual fantasies with women and children.

NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) uses Kinsey as an influence to say why relationships between grown men and young boys is a good thing.

Kinsey being interested in Satanism, by showing curiousity in it's founder.

All the research and findings were manipulated with an agenda to make perverted behavior more acceptable.

And theres more. Much of Dr. Judith Reisman's research is found in this documentary but Left Wing, pro porn advocates claim she's crazy, talk of how good Kinsey's findings have done to advance sexuality in society, including health benefits.

I reccomend watching all of The Kinsey Syndrome. I think all Christians and churches should see this since there is so much being covered up by Kinsey's institution and how he's being hailed as a hero by liberals and Christians need as much proof as possible to show how much those findings have contributed to the corruption of soceity in the world.

]]> http://digitaldaq.deviantart.com/art/ANIMAL-NATURE-ART-SHOW-31201077 http://digitaldaq.deviantart.com/art/ANIMAL-NATURE-ART-SHOW-31201077 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:51:10 PST ANIMAL NATURE ART SHOW adult photography/journalism/naturalevents digitaldaq http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/d/i/digitaldaq.jpg Copyright 2006-2013 ~digitaldaq "Torso 1"
2002
ceramic

In

ANIMAL NATURE - Depictions of Humans and Other Animals, and creatures from the minds of various artists.

Olney Hall AT COLLEGE OF MARIN this semester. Receptions Tues 5-6pm, Wends. 1:30-2:30pm. COM Art Walks starting from O.H. Tues 5:30pm and Wends and 2:30pm led by me. Which will also act as the clubs first 2 meetings. Open M-TH. Until 10pm. Fri Until 2pm maybe longer. Some Sat. and Sun. hours. Can still put work in. May cycle some new work into show as we go along. (ART SHOW - So Far - Sculputer{alabaster, soapstone, ceramic, cast bronze(from oil based wax), wire} digital art, photograms, linocut print. Curated by me. Have some work in it. Put up mostly up, by me.

Contact info davidquinley@aol.com 415 479 1888


@ COLLEGE OF MARIN ARTS IN REVIEW - FOUNDED IN 2002 - INSPIRED WHILE WORKING ON THE ECHO TIMES behind a little on the page - can't get on it edit don't know why - think only thing new besides the show I been put recently in O.H.. Animal Nature - receptions next week - Tues 5-6pm - Wends. 1:30-2:20pm.
Was That of Betty Wilson Paining Class show is gone -
Drawing Show in Kentfield F.A. Building Gallery Reception came and went -
Big Show of Student Photography on bottom floor of F.H., bellow the 2nd floor photo show upstairs in B and W Photo dept. area of traditional B and W photo portraits, wide variety of styles here, worth checking out,
As is the finally new show(what has been a year and haft) above of Solarized B and W Photos, on middle floor, in Club Exsposed Gallery(I call that because it was their funds that gallery was built with).
Also both Katrina Wagner Classes shows take down.
New shows in other Hallway though on the left, architectural models(Nice work here), and Jack Scott drawing and Composition Class Show(Some good work here).
FOR UP TO DATE LIST when I can get the page working again OF ART SHOWS AT COM AND OTHER COM ARTS EVENTS AND INFO
[link]

FOR PICTURES AND INFO OF PAST AND PRESENT ARTS SHOWS AROUND COM AND THE STATE
[link]

FOR REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS OF ART AND ART SHOWS
[link]

LUKE'S GUILD OF ARTS AND SCIENCE(this club already registered for this semester)
[link]

B Average in your Art and Arts Classes. Needed this semester from your last semester where you took art or arts classes in. Or this semesters mid term grades. Applies to classes such as - fine art, dance, film, theater, music, multi- media, creative writing, ect.. Not General Ed classes such as math, science, and languages. This would be a current one, not accumulated grade. High School grades can count.

ARTIST HONOR SOCIETY(Currently looking for a new advisor - To get more teachers involved with us)
[link] ]]> "Torso 1"
2002
ceramic

In

ANIMAL NATURE - Depictions of Humans and Other Animals, and creatures from the minds of various artists.

Olney Hall AT COLLEGE OF MARIN this semester. Receptions Tues 5-6pm, Wends. 1:30-2:30pm. COM Art Walks starting from O.H. Tues 5:30pm and Wends and 2:30pm led by me. Which will also act as the clubs first 2 meetings. Open M-TH. Until 10pm. Fri Until 2pm maybe longer. Some Sat. and Sun. hours. Can still put work in. May cycle some new work into show as we go along. (ART SHOW - So Far - Sculputer{alabaster, soapstone, ceramic, cast bronze(from oil based wax), wire} digital art, photograms, linocut print. Curated by me. Have some work in it. Put up mostly up, by me.

Contact info davidquinley@aol.com 415 479 1888


@ COLLEGE OF MARIN ARTS IN REVIEW - FOUNDED IN 2002 - INSPIRED WHILE WORKING ON THE ECHO TIMES behind a little on the page - can't get on it edit don't know why - think only thing new besides the show I been put recently in O.H.. Animal Nature - receptions next week - Tues 5-6pm - Wends. 1:30-2:20pm.
Was That of Betty Wilson Paining Class show is gone -
Drawing Show in Kentfield F.A. Building Gallery Reception came and went -
Big Show of Student Photography on bottom floor of F.H., bellow the 2nd floor photo show upstairs in B and W Photo dept. area of traditional B and W photo portraits, wide variety of styles here, worth checking out,
As is the finally new show(what has been a year and haft) above of Solarized B and W Photos, on middle floor, in Club Exsposed Gallery(I call that because it was their funds that gallery was built with).
Also both Katrina Wagner Classes shows take down.
New shows in other Hallway though on the left, architectural models(Nice work here), and Jack Scott drawing and Composition Class Show(Some good work here).
FOR UP TO DATE LIST when I can get the page working again OF ART SHOWS AT COM AND OTHER COM ARTS EVENTS AND INFO
[link]

FOR PICTURES AND INFO OF PAST AND PRESENT ARTS SHOWS AROUND COM AND THE STATE
[link]

FOR REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS OF ART AND ART SHOWS
[link]

LUKE'S GUILD OF ARTS AND SCIENCE(this club already registered for this semester)
[link]

B Average in your Art and Arts Classes. Needed this semester from your last semester where you took art or arts classes in. Or this semesters mid term grades. Applies to classes such as - fine art, dance, film, theater, music, multi- media, creative writing, ect.. Not General Ed classes such as math, science, and languages. This would be a current one, not accumulated grade. High School grades can count.

ARTIST HONOR SOCIETY(Currently looking for a new advisor - To get more teachers involved with us)
[link]

]]> http://tayloma.deviantart.com/art/Ana-Ivanovic-no-1-74841269 http://tayloma.deviantart.com/art/Ana-Ivanovic-no-1-74841269 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:17:44 PST Ana Ivanovic no 1 nonadult photography/journalism/sports tayloma http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/a/tayloma.png Copyright 2008-2013 ~tayloma
Justine Henin vs Ana Ivanovic..

I was courtside with 400D, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 and a 1.4x extender II.. sitting right behind the press photographers.. was best spot to shoot..

Comments/Critique is most welcome and appreciated..

ps.. title isnt very creative.. any ideas let me know!! ]]>
Justine Henin vs Ana Ivanovic..

I was courtside with 400D, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 and a 1.4x extender II.. sitting right behind the press photographers.. was best spot to shoot..

Comments/Critique is most welcome and appreciated..

ps.. title isnt very creative.. any ideas let me know!!

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Lysander-and-Demetrius-3-334917958 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Lysander-and-Demetrius-3-334917958 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:53:01 PDT Lysander and Demetrius 3 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-12-367964445 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-12-367964445 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:53:33 PDT Emerge 12 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-11-367964243 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-11-367964243 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:52:01 PDT Emerge 11 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-6-367963099 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-6-367963099 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:43:59 PDT Emerge 6 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Lysander-and-Demetrius-334917011 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Lysander-and-Demetrius-334917011 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:44:40 PDT Lysander and Demetrius nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://tcisf2f.deviantart.com/art/Reflecting-Dreams-56769877 http://tcisf2f.deviantart.com/art/Reflecting-Dreams-56769877 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:31:08 PDT Reflecting Dreams nonadult photography/journalism/people tcisf2f http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/c/tcisf2f.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 ~tcisf2f

]]> http://tayloma.deviantart.com/art/Svetlana-Kuznetsova-no-1-74844707 http://tayloma.deviantart.com/art/Svetlana-Kuznetsova-no-1-74844707 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:17:04 PST Svetlana Kuznetsova no 1 nonadult photography/journalism/sports tayloma http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/a/tayloma.png Copyright 2008-2013 ~tayloma
Svetlana Kuznetsova vs Nicole Vaidasova

I was courtside with 400D, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 and a 1.4x extender II.. sitting right behind the press photographers.. was best spot to shoot..

Comments/Critique is most welcome and appreciated..

ps.. title isnt very creative.. any ideas let me know!! ]]>
Svetlana Kuznetsova vs Nicole Vaidasova

I was courtside with 400D, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 and a 1.4x extender II.. sitting right behind the press photographers.. was best spot to shoot..

Comments/Critique is most welcome and appreciated..

ps.. title isnt very creative.. any ideas let me know!!

]]> http://aaronhays.deviantart.com/art/No-Mas-No-More-280571650 http://aaronhays.deviantart.com/art/No-Mas-No-More-280571650 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:39:15 PST No Mas, No More nonadult photography/journalism/political AaronHays http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/a/aaronhays.png?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~AaronHays http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-5-367962123 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-5-367962123 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:37:05 PDT Emerge 5 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://roguemedium.deviantart.com/art/Adrienne-Clarkson-at-the-Clarkson-Cup-292884442 http://roguemedium.deviantart.com/art/Adrienne-Clarkson-at-the-Clarkson-Cup-292884442 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:35:04 PDT Adrienne Clarkson at the Clarkson Cup! nonadult photography/journalism/sports roguemedium http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/r/o/roguemedium.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *roguemedium http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
This was my first forray into the Clarkson Cup and live woman's hockey in general. I had watched throughout the years when IIHF or the Olympics would be on so some of these players were not foreign to me. I really hope that the Clarkson Cup returns to this venue next year because it is an event that can gain traction and legacy as the years go on. It just needs more exposure. I consider myself a discerning sports fan and the hockey was fantastic.

I don't think that the economic feasability of a "pro" league is what is truly important here. If the product is good, we can find creative ways to distribute and generate enough income to one day have it be a self sustaining organization. I'm not saying they need to be paid lots of money now but I hope the league can work towards providing enough assistance to players of all talent levels in the women's game to not let our potential top talents slip through the cracks.

Lastly but most importantly, my perception on woman's sport changed completely when I realized that it would be incredibly unfair to shut out half the population of a potential goal that they can achieve in sports. I believe it has a strong trickle down affect. Like when I saw Stevie Yzerman lift the cup and asked myself, "Will I be strong enough to lift the cup when I win it? It looks big" Girls all around the world should be able to dream like that and this supercedes any financial goals or cost benefit analysis. I hope we can work together to help grow the game for half our population. I know I am now a fan.

Jay
@torontosj ]]>
This was my first forray into the Clarkson Cup and live woman's hockey in general. I had watched throughout the years when IIHF or the Olympics would be on so some of these players were not foreign to me. I really hope that the Clarkson Cup returns to this venue next year because it is an event that can gain traction and legacy as the years go on. It just needs more exposure. I consider myself a discerning sports fan and the hockey was fantastic.

I don't think that the economic feasability of a "pro" league is what is truly important here. If the product is good, we can find creative ways to distribute and generate enough income to one day have it be a self sustaining organization. I'm not saying they need to be paid lots of money now but I hope the league can work towards providing enough assistance to players of all talent levels in the women's game to not let our potential top talents slip through the cracks.

Lastly but most importantly, my perception on woman's sport changed completely when I realized that it would be incredibly unfair to shut out half the population of a potential goal that they can achieve in sports. I believe it has a strong trickle down affect. Like when I saw Stevie Yzerman lift the cup and asked myself, "Will I be strong enough to lift the cup when I win it? It looks big" Girls all around the world should be able to dream like that and this supercedes any financial goals or cost benefit analysis. I hope we can work together to help grow the game for half our population. I know I am now a fan.

Jay
@torontosj

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Pyramus-334923484 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Pyramus-334923484 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:49:17 PDT Pyramus nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Snug-as-Lion-334924468 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Snug-as-Lion-334924468 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:00:15 PDT Snug as Lion nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Robin-Puck-Goodfellow-334919336 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Robin-Puck-Goodfellow-334919336 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:06:16 PDT Robin 'Puck' Goodfellow nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/King-Oberon-and-Queen-Titania-334920988 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/King-Oberon-and-Queen-Titania-334920988 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:24:05 PDT King Oberon and Queen Titania nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Demetrius-4-334906952 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Demetrius-4-334906952 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:20:12 PDT Demetrius 4 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/The-Court-of-Athens-2-334895048 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/The-Court-of-Athens-2-334895048 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:01:35 PDT The Court of Athens 2 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Bottom-and-Queen-2-334914185 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Bottom-and-Queen-2-334914185 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:18:47 PDT Bottom and Queen 2 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

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A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Tom-Snout-as-Wall-3-334923953 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Tom-Snout-as-Wall-3-334923953 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:54:39 PDT Tom Snout as Wall 3 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/King-Oberon-334904585 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/King-Oberon-334904585 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:03:58 PDT King Oberon nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
The Play:

A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
The Play:

A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/I-am-Your-Spaniel-2-334907421 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/I-am-Your-Spaniel-2-334907421 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:24:13 PDT I'am Your Spaniel 2 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Helena-334899773 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Helena-334899773 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:31:06 PDT Helena nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Pyramus-and-Thisbe-334925807 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Pyramus-and-Thisbe-334925807 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:14:54 PDT Pyramus and Thisbe nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Lysander-Dancing-334918551 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Lysander-Dancing-334918551 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:58:26 PDT Lysander Dancing nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Demetrius-Underwear-334918951 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Demetrius-Underwear-334918951 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:02:10 PDT Demetrius Underwear nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Francis-Flute-and-Peter-Quince-334901283 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Francis-Flute-and-Peter-Quince-334901283 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:41:34 PDT Francis Flute and Peter Quince nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/My-Gentle-Puck-Come-Hither-334904175 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/My-Gentle-Puck-Come-Hither-334904175 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:01:15 PDT My Gentle Puck Come Hither nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
The Play:

A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
The Play:

A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Helena-Insults-Hermia-334919118 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Helena-Insults-Hermia-334919118 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:03:54 PDT Helena Insults Hermia nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Pyramus-The-Wall-and-Thisbe-334924338 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Pyramus-The-Wall-and-Thisbe-334924338 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:58:55 PDT Pyramus, The Wall and Thisbe nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

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A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Egeus-334921471 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Egeus-334921471 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:29:46 PDT Egeus nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
Egeus is an oppressive old man and the controlling father of Hermia, He requires alot of attention to bring his point of view and objective across both to other characters and audience members (even thou he never broke the forth wall) Egeus is very different from me because of the age difference because after I performed my ALRA audition as Egeus, Adrian told me he was too old for me to perform. His gestures include the movement of his hands and his I had to pickup to enter the scenes with like placing one hand behind my back and the other holding either his smoking pipe or the shotgun he carried in Act 4 Scene 1. There is not a lot of history I found on him but I know that he and Theseus knew each other for sometime and possibly hippolyta, Egeus was probably a single father, his wife might have died in childbirth. That's possibly why he spoiled Hermia, and wants to control her as "his property" because he loves her and can't let her go. I think Theseus took him aside and successfully convinced him to allow his daugther to marry whom she loves, Egeus learns that if he loves his daughter he shouldn't control her but try to make her happy. His super objective is to make his daughter as happy as he can but with rules of his own, because Egeus prefers Demetrius to wed Hermia over Lysander because in his opinion, Demetrius has done nothing but love Hermia, and Lysander has made her stubborn and disobedient. The problem is that he demands his legal right to marry off his daughter to a man of his choosing whom Hermia hates. As for Lysander, whom Hermia loves, Egeus claims that Lysander has corrupted her to make her love him. Egeus asks Theseus to enforce a father's "ancient privilege of Athens," which allows him to have his daughter executed if she will not marry Demetrius. As for laban element , I used the Laban elements of Gliding for being In control and Pressing for being serious and responsible. If Egeus was an animal I would portray him as a lion and the Ancient Greek λέων (leon) because Lions have a history of attention in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire and the lion’s role as a father is famous for the control of cubs and the tolerance of the male lions towards their cubs varies—sometimes, the lion will patiently let the cubs play with his tail or his mane, whereas another may snarl and bat the cubs away. I based my version of Egeus on the 1920’s version of Adolf Hitler because in the 1920’s after his imprisonment he was very close to his his half-niece Geli Raubal. Then rumors of physical abuse began gossiping around the Nazi party. She felt like a prisoner, oppressed and was obviously controlled by Hitler just like Egeus is towards his daughter, also I mimicked some of Hitlers mannerisms and hand gestures to help portray Egeus during the rehersals and character reseach .

The Process:

I felt that the most positive part of the rehearsal process is rehearsing in different Theatrical genres such as Melodrama, Western, Horror, Action, Eastenders and Samurai because they exaggerate the plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions and giving us the freedom to express playful behavior on stage. The performance’s felt very opening and accepting because they were allowing my music ability to be shown, Playing the guitar to the lullaby in Act 2 Scene 2 was an event I didn’t think was going to work because I believed it was too complex for the play but performing it to an audience felt like I have made a change of task to perform on stage. My targets were to receive positive feed back from audience members and keeping calm and carrying on no matter what blooper has been caused. I did receive a lot of good feedback from audience members and I have tried my best to concentrate on the script after recognizing a number of my mistakes. What would I like to change in my process and do differently is to keep my voice sharp and strong for the audience to hear and understand along with the correct tone for my character.

Contemporsing the piece:

I think our version was set in the 1920’s because of the themes and they relate to our production because of the genre of comedy and The Jazz Age represents a time to change even thou there was an obvious economic depression after The Great War which has cost 16.5 million lives, The Jazz age was a chance of new hope, freedom just like A Midsummer nights dream represents Oppression and Freedom for both Men and Women to allow themselves to Love whoever and danced to whatever genre of music.
The Setting felt a little improvised due to disasters with the curtain and the amount of time we had but It showed of good use, especially levels and the lighting activating the shadows for the fairies and transitions of characters, The costumes showed off positive signs of reputation for the characters because they have also identified us, for example, Fairies wore 1920’s Golf and Tennis sportswear, tuxedos to represent the wedding scenes, lower class clothing for the mechanicals along with their “cheap-looking” costumes for their own play, and The expensive looking suits and dresses for the upper class Court of Theseus.

My Research:

The Movies I have watched are Hitler, The Rise of Evil because of the Robert Carlyle’s portrayal of Adolf Hitler inspired me to portray Egeus. And the The Jolson Story for its inspirational music. For music, I played on my Yamaha Keyboard and played improvised melodies on an upright piano mode.

The Play:

A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
Egeus is an oppressive old man and the controlling father of Hermia, He requires alot of attention to bring his point of view and objective across both to other characters and audience members (even thou he never broke the forth wall) Egeus is very different from me because of the age difference because after I performed my ALRA audition as Egeus, Adrian told me he was too old for me to perform. His gestures include the movement of his hands and his I had to pickup to enter the scenes with like placing one hand behind my back and the other holding either his smoking pipe or the shotgun he carried in Act 4 Scene 1. There is not a lot of history I found on him but I know that he and Theseus knew each other for sometime and possibly hippolyta, Egeus was probably a single father, his wife might have died in childbirth. That's possibly why he spoiled Hermia, and wants to control her as "his property" because he loves her and can't let her go. I think Theseus took him aside and successfully convinced him to allow his daugther to marry whom she loves, Egeus learns that if he loves his daughter he shouldn't control her but try to make her happy. His super objective is to make his daughter as happy as he can but with rules of his own, because Egeus prefers Demetrius to wed Hermia over Lysander because in his opinion, Demetrius has done nothing but love Hermia, and Lysander has made her stubborn and disobedient. The problem is that he demands his legal right to marry off his daughter to a man of his choosing whom Hermia hates. As for Lysander, whom Hermia loves, Egeus claims that Lysander has corrupted her to make her love him. Egeus asks Theseus to enforce a father's "ancient privilege of Athens," which allows him to have his daughter executed if she will not marry Demetrius. As for laban element , I used the Laban elements of Gliding for being In control and Pressing for being serious and responsible. If Egeus was an animal I would portray him as a lion and the Ancient Greek λέων (leon) because Lions have a history of attention in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire and the lion’s role as a father is famous for the control of cubs and the tolerance of the male lions towards their cubs varies—sometimes, the lion will patiently let the cubs play with his tail or his mane, whereas another may snarl and bat the cubs away. I based my version of Egeus on the 1920’s version of Adolf Hitler because in the 1920’s after his imprisonment he was very close to his his half-niece Geli Raubal. Then rumors of physical abuse began gossiping around the Nazi party. She felt like a prisoner, oppressed and was obviously controlled by Hitler just like Egeus is towards his daughter, also I mimicked some of Hitlers mannerisms and hand gestures to help portray Egeus during the rehersals and character reseach .

The Process:

I felt that the most positive part of the rehearsal process is rehearsing in different Theatrical genres such as Melodrama, Western, Horror, Action, Eastenders and Samurai because they exaggerate the plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions and giving us the freedom to express playful behavior on stage. The performance’s felt very opening and accepting because they were allowing my music ability to be shown, Playing the guitar to the lullaby in Act 2 Scene 2 was an event I didn’t think was going to work because I believed it was too complex for the play but performing it to an audience felt like I have made a change of task to perform on stage. My targets were to receive positive feed back from audience members and keeping calm and carrying on no matter what blooper has been caused. I did receive a lot of good feedback from audience members and I have tried my best to concentrate on the script after recognizing a number of my mistakes. What would I like to change in my process and do differently is to keep my voice sharp and strong for the audience to hear and understand along with the correct tone for my character.

Contemporsing the piece:

I think our version was set in the 1920’s because of the themes and they relate to our production because of the genre of comedy and The Jazz Age represents a time to change even thou there was an obvious economic depression after The Great War which has cost 16.5 million lives, The Jazz age was a chance of new hope, freedom just like A Midsummer nights dream represents Oppression and Freedom for both Men and Women to allow themselves to Love whoever and danced to whatever genre of music.
The Setting felt a little improvised due to disasters with the curtain and the amount of time we had but It showed of good use, especially levels and the lighting activating the shadows for the fairies and transitions of characters, The costumes showed off positive signs of reputation for the characters because they have also identified us, for example, Fairies wore 1920’s Golf and Tennis sportswear, tuxedos to represent the wedding scenes, lower class clothing for the mechanicals along with their “cheap-looking” costumes for their own play, and The expensive looking suits and dresses for the upper class Court of Theseus.

My Research:

The Movies I have watched are Hitler, The Rise of Evil because of the Robert Carlyle’s portrayal of Adolf Hitler inspired me to portray Egeus. And the The Jolson Story for its inspirational music. For music, I played on my Yamaha Keyboard and played improvised melodies on an upright piano mode.

The Play:

A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://dundypeeps.deviantart.com/art/creativity-with-poi-321623043 http://dundypeeps.deviantart.com/art/creativity-with-poi-321623043 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:43:47 PDT creativity with poi=) nonadult photography/journalism/performing Dundypeeps http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/d/u/dundypeeps.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Dundypeeps * ps. the green halter top I made for $1* ]]> * ps. the green halter top I made for $1*

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-10-367964064 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-10-367964064 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:50:48 PDT Emerge 10 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-2-367960633 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-2-367960633 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:25:53 PDT Emerge 2 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-4-367961521 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-4-367961521 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:32:31 PDT Emerge 4 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-9-367963861 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-9-367963861 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:49:39 PDT Emerge 9 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-7-367963299 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-7-367963299 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:45:58 PDT Emerge 7 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-1-367958802 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-1-367958802 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:22:16 PDT Emerge 1 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-8-367963590 http://matthewpalfenier.deviantart.com/art/Emerge-8-367963590 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:47:38 PDT Emerge 8 nonadult photography/journalism/performing MatthewPalfenier http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/a/matthewpalfenier.jpg?5 Copyright 2013 *MatthewPalfenier Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower ]]> Emerge. This piece was performed at Belhaven University during the 2013 Dance Ministry Concert.

"Emerge was created through a six month collaboration between eight student members of the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble and seven teenage girls residing at a local Children’s Home. The project investigated the transformative power of shared choreographic and performative processes and examined how trained and untrained dancers could express their stories through movement. The dancers explored how to serve and minister to one another within the complexities of the creative process.

The women featured in these photos are all trained dancers." - Krista Bower

]]> http://icon-iman.deviantart.com/art/People-of-Kampong-Adat-349272227 http://icon-iman.deviantart.com/art/People-of-Kampong-Adat-349272227 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:51:27 PST People of Kampong Adat nonadult photography/journalism/places icon-iman http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/i/c/icon-iman.jpg?1 Copyright 2013 ~icon-iman
Im amazed by this girl that i shot shes only 9 years old and yet she know how to make a fabric and sell it to tourist with confident. The beautiful and colorful background at the back of her is the fabrics that are made by her and her sisters and they hang and arrange it like as if its a wallpaper.I learned that creativity and craftsmanship has not limit when it comes to age .

Most importantly is she know her culture and tradition, unlike city kids of various ethnicity that mostly now doesnt know their tradition and culture at all.


Lombok, Indonesia. 2012. ]]>
Im amazed by this girl that i shot shes only 9 years old and yet she know how to make a fabric and sell it to tourist with confident. The beautiful and colorful background at the back of her is the fabrics that are made by her and her sisters and they hang and arrange it like as if its a wallpaper.I learned that creativity and craftsmanship has not limit when it comes to age .

Most importantly is she know her culture and tradition, unlike city kids of various ethnicity that mostly now doesnt know their tradition and culture at all.


Lombok, Indonesia. 2012.

]]> http://ivelen.deviantart.com/art/June-Faire-Armored-Combat-3-145961883 http://ivelen.deviantart.com/art/June-Faire-Armored-Combat-3-145961883 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:42:26 PST June Faire: Armored Combat 3 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Ivelen http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/i/v/ivelen.jpg?1 Copyright 2009-2013 ~Ivelen
Every year for the first weekend of June, Port Gamble hosts the June Faire which is an SCA run event. SCA stands for the Society of Creative Anachronisms.

I'm not a shopper but I do adore the performances (hence why this is categorized under Performing Arts instead of Public Events). My favorite are the combat performances, which consist of Jousting, Archery, Rapier, and Armored.

I missed the Jousting and Archery, and I the camera died before I could catch the Rapier Tournament!

So, I covered the Armored Combat. Enjoy!

Some helpful info:

Those weapons are real, but are inside casings for safety purposes. If the wielder is hit in the arm, he must drop whatever he was holding and place his arm behind his back. This signifies that the arm was lost in battle. If the leg was hit then he gets to hop around on the other, OR he has to sit on the ground signifying the loss of both legs.

In some fun cases, both fighters lose both legs and an arm. But that is usually not the case. Loss of both legs for the two fighters is more common and I have never seen both wielders lose all four limbs.

Fighting is an honor system. If I think I hit someone in the chest but they don't feel it, it doesn't count. If I didn't know I hit them in the chest but they flt it, then they would say so and it would count. You are trusting your opponent not to lie just as he trusts you not to lie.

The one in the black-white armor is actually a woman. So there are women who do Armored Combat although they are more commonly found doing the Rapier Combat instead. ]]>
Every year for the first weekend of June, Port Gamble hosts the June Faire which is an SCA run event. SCA stands for the Society of Creative Anachronisms.

I'm not a shopper but I do adore the performances (hence why this is categorized under Performing Arts instead of Public Events). My favorite are the combat performances, which consist of Jousting, Archery, Rapier, and Armored.

I missed the Jousting and Archery, and I the camera died before I could catch the Rapier Tournament!

So, I covered the Armored Combat. Enjoy!

Some helpful info:

Those weapons are real, but are inside casings for safety purposes. If the wielder is hit in the arm, he must drop whatever he was holding and place his arm behind his back. This signifies that the arm was lost in battle. If the leg was hit then he gets to hop around on the other, OR he has to sit on the ground signifying the loss of both legs.

In some fun cases, both fighters lose both legs and an arm. But that is usually not the case. Loss of both legs for the two fighters is more common and I have never seen both wielders lose all four limbs.

Fighting is an honor system. If I think I hit someone in the chest but they don't feel it, it doesn't count. If I didn't know I hit them in the chest but they flt it, then they would say so and it would count. You are trusting your opponent not to lie just as he trusts you not to lie.

The one in the black-white armor is actually a woman. So there are women who do Armored Combat although they are more commonly found doing the Rapier Combat instead.

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Tom-Snout-as-Wall-334923684 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Tom-Snout-as-Wall-334923684 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:51:36 PDT Tom Snout as Wall nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Snug-as-Lion-2-334924624 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Snug-as-Lion-2-334924624 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:01:58 PDT Snug as Lion 2 nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

]]> http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Bottom-and-Robin-Starveling-334925188 http://zildjainzone.deviantart.com/art/Bottom-and-Robin-Starveling-334925188 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:08:09 PDT Bottom and Robin Starveling nonadult photography/journalism/performing Zildjainzone http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/z/i/zildjainzone.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~Zildjainzone
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

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A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012) ]]>
A Midsummer nights dream (A simple synopsis) - The Lovers - Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and want to marry. But Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius instead. Demetrius used to date Helena. Demetrius has dumped Helena and now wants to marry Hermia, but Helena still loves Demetrius and wants to win him back. All four of these young lovers live in Athens. (The Duke who rules Athens is about to get married.) The laws of Athens say that Hermia will be put to death if she doesn't obey her father. She has to marry Demetrius, even though she loves Lysander. So Hermia and Lysander decide to run away from Athens. Helena and Demetrius find out about this plan, so they follow Hermia and Lysander out of Athens, into the woods.

The Mechanicals - Six men in Athens have decided to put on a play in honor of the Duke's wedding. They hope that the Duke will love their play and give them a big reward. But they're really bad performers and their play is a joke. They think it's a tragedy, but they perform it so badly that it comes across as a goofy comedy.

The Fairies -Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies, live in the woods outside the city of Athens. They have all kinds of magical powers. Puck is Oberon's court jester, a fairy who entertains the King by playing pranks and generally acting weird and hilarious.

When the lovers run away from Athens, they end up in the woods, where the fairies rule. When the mechanicals sneak out of Athens to rehearse their play, they also end up in the woods. All of them get caught up in a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, the fairy King and Queen.

Because Oberon is mad at Titania, he decides to punish her by slipping her a drug that will cause her to fall in love with some wild animal or monster in the woods. Because Puck is a prankster, he turns one of the mechanicals into a man with a donkey's head. Titania, under the influence of the drug, then falls in love with him.

Oberon and Puck also try to use the love drug to get Demetrius and Helena back together, but they screw up at first and use the drug on Lysander instead. So for a while, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena, while Hermia is left out in the cold, wondering why Lysander doesn't love her anymore.

Eventually, Puck and Oberon get everything straightened out. Titania stops loving bottom, who gets turned back into a regular man. Hermia and Lysander get married, and so do Helena and Demetrius. The Duke also gets married, and the mechanicals perform their play at the wedding reception… And at the end Puck assures the audience that it was only a dream.

The Four Worlds in the play are
•The Lovers
•The Court of Athens
•The Mechanicals
•The Fairies

Themes
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian boy; Helena confronts Demetrius in the wood.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Lysander falls in love with Helena on awakening with the love juice in his eyes: the lovers are in great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.

Order and disorder and the need for a balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.

Some related scenes:

•Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes Hermia's punishment if she disobeys her father, prompting the lovers' escape to the woods.

•Act 2 Scene 1: Titania describes the consequences for the natural world of her quarrel with Oberon.

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania expresses her love for Bottom who has been transformed into a donkey.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Three weddings and a fairy blessing bring all to a happy conclusion.


Appearance and reality and how people and events are often not as they seem.

Some related scenes:

•Act 3 Scene 1: Bottom's transformation disrupts the Mechanicals' rehearsal.

•Act 3 Scene 2: Puck's mistakes bring the lovers to great confusion.

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy and the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now.

•Act 5 Scene 1: The play within the play highlights the theme of illusion and reality.

Creative imagination and its reliance on the unconscious, the magical, the mysterious.

Some related scenes:

•Act 4 Scene 1: Titania awakes from her fantasy, the lovers comment on how like a dream recent events seem to them now and Bottom tells his vision.

•Act 5 Scene 1: Theseus describes the poet's art, the play within the play provides its comment on artistic enterprise and all ends in harmony with the fairies' blessing of the sleeping house.

Freedom and Opperssion because our version of the play was set after WWI, the role of women in society changed. After earning the right to vote, in the 1920s, a new woman was born She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. But Oppression was still around the corner and men were usually the perpetrators (Most commonly their fathers).

•Act 1 Scene 1: Egeus, The father of Hermia who disapproves of Hermia's and Lysander's mutual love, and appeals to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death under Athenian law.

Egeus is oppressive to his daughter and at a time when a progressive era such as the Women's suffrage and promoting that Hermia will be executed if refusing to wed Demetrius. Egeus later the theme of “Freedom” and a father's support and acceptance for her to wed Lysander in Act 4 Scene 1 after Theseus overbears his will.

“I think it’s the time and era of when its set and the situations appear to be creative especially during the Fairy world with the fairies who have the ability to perform magic while the Lovers, Court and Mechanicals are mortal but share the same themes like Order and disorder that balance between the rational and irrational, between rules and magic, in the interests of love, harmony and creativity.”

Photography: Joe Manning
Production: A Midsummer Nights Dream (2012)

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