A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
My rating: 0 of 5 stars
Ever seen one of those ensemble, huge movies where there’s a hundred stories and it’s like someone said, “Get me every famous person and put them in front of my camera immediately!”?
That’s what this is.
A romcom with four intersecting plots, I’ll do my best to sum it up.
Theseus is a sportscaster, older, never married, and he swore off love a long time ago. Hippolyta is a career woman, too busy working at a fancy New York magazine to ever bother with trivialities like love. But when they meet, sparks fly, and they have to decide whether they’re going to break their own rules. They have a scene where they learn to love again by playing around in a fountain and splashing each other even though they’re in formal wear.
Hermia and Lysander are the best of friends. Everyone but them sees the sparks. The problem? They’ve never been single at the same time. It’s always been her with someone, then him with someone, then her, and they’ve leapfrogged like that for years until, by chance, they go to pick up their significant others at the airport at the same time, and a plane crash kills both of their lovers. Was it a tower error that brought the plane down, or was it Cupid’s arrow? Cupid’s violent, bloody arrow?
Helena and Demetrius are in a band together, and the band has one rule: Nobody dates the drummer. Helena, the drummer, doesn’t know the origin of this rule, just that some really bad stuff went down with the last drummer and no one wants to talk about it. But Demtrius, bass player, finds his groove with Helena right away, and it’s not too long before the two-person rhythm section finds themselves in violation of their band’s biggest rule. Their band is called Rainbow In the Dark and they’re a Dio tribute band, by the way.
Oberon runs the hottest strip joint in town. Titania leads a church group. How will these two unlikely characters meet and then finger each other? You’ll just have to read and find out.