Puck chases some Athenian craftsmen and scares them for fun! This is a fun speech to break into small pieces and share around the circle. You can divide each time there is punctuation. Write the sections on cards, or let everyone highlight their sheet with their words. You can have pairs do the words too, or groups of 3; this way each group will get more than one part as the speech goes around the circle.
2. Midsummer moments from scene 1This is a selection of small pieces from the first scene. It is a good opportunity for students to take on a line or two and feel they’ve “done a part.”
3. Midsummer Scene 3 with summaryThis is a long scene, but you can take the first two pages with Puck and Fairy, or the next part with Titania and Oberon, and lift out small pieces and enlarge them.
4. Midsummer collage – DreamThis is a collage of moments from scenes which all contain the word “dream.” Some are very brief, others are for group performance – so this is a section you can do as a whole performance piece for older students, or take snippets from for younger kids.