Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... a man with a confidence problem. Namely, he’s got far too much of it. Nick has trouble seeing his own inadequacies as an actor. He considers himself to be a born thespian, capable of playing all roles in the play of Pyramus and Thisbe. Luckily, Bottom gets what he deserves when Oberon, king of the fairies, transforms the conceited actor’s head into a donkey’s.
Personality... self-important, loud, and dramatic. Nick Bottom is a bit of a narcissist who believes that the most beautiful women in the world are capable of falling in love with him. All of this makes it very difficult for the quiet, nervous director, Peter Quince, to work with him.
Get to Know him in...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, and how they are finally brought together rightly, thanks in part to the bungling work of Puck. It is completely in the language of the Bard, with Pfeiffer as the Fairy Queen and Kline as the one turned into her evening's lover with donkey ears.
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When Hermia's father promises her hand in marriage to a man she doesn't want, she runs away with her true love, Lysander. But their escape gets turned upside down by the fairy king Oberon and the mischievous Puck, whose magic turns love into hate and men into beasts!
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Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company production is one of the best versions of this oft-attempted but seldom achieved vision.
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Classic Shakespeare play adapted for television by Russell T Davies. In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, and young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father. Meanwhile, in the town below, amateur theatre group the Mechanicals rehearse, with all their comic rivalries. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
