Bradley in A Midsummer Night's Dream
According to his agency's webpage, Bradley played Flute in Drama Centre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I was not very familiar with the original play, so I didn't pay attention to this fact before.
Today, I watched the 1999 movie version of A Midsummer Night's Dream and I found out that although Flute is a minor character appears in the subplot of the play, he is very interesting. Here is a description of Flute in wikipedia.
Francis Flute is a character in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. His occupation is a bellows-mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play within the play which is performed for Theseus' marriage celebration.
Flute is an excited actor who is disappointed when he finds he is meant to play a woman (Thisbe) in their interlude before the duke and the duchess. He generally is portrayed using a falsetto voice. He is an unsure actor.
His unwilling attitude to playing a woman is exemplified by the line 'Nay faith, let me not play a woman'. Flute is often portrayed as the lowest in status of the Mechanicals, but his performance at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta arguably wins them favour at the court of the duke and duchess
I am not sure how different was Drama Centre's adaption of the play from the original. But I want to see Bradley as the female lead / doomed lover Thisbe.
Today, I watched the 1999 movie version of A Midsummer Night's Dream and I found out that although Flute is a minor character appears in the subplot of the play, he is very interesting. Here is a description of Flute in wikipedia.
Francis Flute is a character in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. His occupation is a bellows-mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play within the play which is performed for Theseus' marriage celebration.
Flute is an excited actor who is disappointed when he finds he is meant to play a woman (Thisbe) in their interlude before the duke and the duchess. He generally is portrayed using a falsetto voice. He is an unsure actor.
His unwilling attitude to playing a woman is exemplified by the line 'Nay faith, let me not play a woman'. Flute is often portrayed as the lowest in status of the Mechanicals, but his performance at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta arguably wins them favour at the court of the duke and duchess
I am not sure how different was Drama Centre's adaption of the play from the original. But I want to see Bradley as the female lead / doomed lover Thisbe.