The BBC's adaptations of Will's plays culminated in A Midsummer Night's Dream last night. Having given up a trip to the pub in order to stay in and watch it, I was very interested in how they would approach it. I'm not entirely sure setting it in a holiday park worked too well but then I can't think of where they could have set it since the whole idea of a forest is pretty well associated with MND. They seemed to embellish things and skate over others. Inventing the whole idea of Theo [Theseus] and Polly [Hipolyta]'s marriage being in crisis paralleled quite well with Oberon and Titania's ongoing fight throughout. At least they changed what they were fighting about and I think it worked quite well; I've never been to keen on Will's reason on why they were fighting, especially after seeing the, quite frankly, scary doll at the RSC production. At one point though I did think they weren't going to have Helena and James Demetrius together by the end and was about ready to start yelling at the BBC but it was all ok in the end. It was a proper happy ending. I do think they could have explored the character of Bottom a bit more though, he's supposed to be quite arrogant and not be at all puzzled about why the beautiful Queen of the Fairies would fall in love with him. They could have maybe had him boasting that he could do the magic tricks, singing and everything else rather than just his impressions. The mechanicals are supposed to be funny but I didn't find them that funny in light of everything; one of the reasons probably being that I don't actually like Johnny Vegas. As for Puck, he worked relatively well. There are lots of different ways to play Puck, the RSC production played him quite sinister and the 1999 Michael Hoffman production plays him as quite mischievous, so how it's played really depends on the general approach of the production.