Magic: Remedies All Plot Conflicts in Less Than One Act or Your Money Back
Throughout the play, there doesn’t seem to be any major climaxes—seeing how it would be a bit difficult with there being about 4 separate groups with 4 separate motives and conflicts. Especially Theseus and Hippolyta, who conveniently sneak out of the play during all the drama and make their grand entrance when all is back to how it was—except the fact that the fairies forgot to lift the love juice that was smeared over Demetrius’ eyes. Which was just a convenient way to pair off the young adults nice and neat.
Which is why I thought the resolution to the play was a bit annoying. There was never any threat or real conflict because magic could simply fix it. It sorely reminded me of American Horror Story: Coven, where there were lots of witches with magic. And because some of them had the power of resurgence (bringing back the dead), when a character died you didn’t get that OH NO!!! feeling. You just casually wondered who would be the one to bring them back and how deep in the episode would they get around to doing it—of course it was still a pretty great show.
Although the plot was cleaned up too abruptly, in my opinion. I’m still liking the play and I’m excited for what’s left: A Rude Mechanical Production. I’m hoping it’ll be something like one of the greatest and iconic endings of all time… Shrek 2‘s “I Need a Hero” scene (which is technically the penultimate scene), because it was funny and had a great song-and-dance number—and who doesn’t love that?