No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck, Oberon, Lysander and More
MrJWatson for Nick Bottom
Bottom is a fun-loving, over-confident, workman. He is a pretty bad actor and singer, but despite this, he loves to sing and act, and thinks he is pretty good. He is constantly messing up his language, and is the main source of comic relief in the play.
He should have a mid to deep voice. Just someone who sounds like he would be fun to be around, even if he is way in over his head.
In that case, if I can wear a mask, let me play Thisbe too! I’ll be Pyramus first: “Thisbe, Thisbe!”—And then in falsetto: “Ah, Pyramus, my dear lover! I’m your dear Thisbe, your dear lady!”
What do you think I’ve got on my head? You’re acting like an ass, don’t you think?
We’ll be there, and there we’ll rehearse courageously and wonderfully, truly obscenely. Work hard, know your lines. Goodbye.
