RAFT CHOICES FOR
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Extra Credit
Directions: Pick ANY ONE ROW from the list BELOW! Be Creative and have fun with it!
Role
Audience
Format
Hermia
Theseus
Speech
Helena
Hermia
Demetrius
Egeus
Poem/Song lyrics
Letter
Newspaper Reporter
Athenians
News Article
Play Critic
Athenians
News Article
Quince
Athenians
Narrative
ANY of the FOUR
LOVERS
Dear Abby
Advice Column
Oberon
Titania
Letter
Advertiser
Travelers to Athens
Brochure
Puck
The other fairies
Speech
Shakespeare
The world
Play
Writer
Children
Picture Book
Wedding Planner
Hermia, Helena, and
Hippolyta
16th century Wedding
Topic
To persuade Duke
Theseus to let her
marry Lysander
To woo Demetrius
To say goodbye and
give reasons for
leaving Athens
forever
To report the strange
dreams reported by
the four lovers and/or
Nick Bottom
To give a
review/critique of the
actors play, “Pyramus
and Thisbe” that was
performed a the
Duke’s wedding
“Bottom’s Dream”
To report the
problems faced by
ONE of the four
lovers and to ask for
help
To apologize and
admit all his wrong
doings
To attract people to
Athens and the fairy
kingdom/forest
To inform the fairies
how to be
mischievous
An alternate ending to
“A Midsummer
Night’s Dream”
“A Midsummer
Night’s Dream”
Coordinate the
wedding of Hippolyta,
Hermia, and Helena
according to 16th
century customs!
Role
Audience
Format
Artist
Audience
Playbill
An admirer of
Shakespeare’s work
The World
Play
Actors
The class
Performance
Your
Own
Original Idea
Topic
Create a Playbill for
the performance of
Shakespeare’s “A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream” as it would
look in the late
1500’s. (Be sure to
add historically
accurate
advertisements, news,
etc. and that the
language is in old
English.)
Rewrite an act from
“A Midsummer
Night’s Dream” in
today’s language
using today’s
technology in the
setting. Type out the
screenplay in proper
format, including
stage directions.
Either alone or in a
group, perform a
scene from “A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream.” Old English
lines must be
memorized; lines
must be spoken with
emotion and feeling,
and stage directions
followed. You will
have to either perform
it for the class or
record it and show it
to us!
Approved by me!
**If you decide on performing/acting, ask me for a list of scenes that will
easily work for you and your company. And of course, BREAK A LEG!