About this audiobook
Four young lovers leave the ordered world of Athens for a wood where their relationships become entangled with fairy interference. Nearby, a group of amateur actors rehearses a play, bringing its own ambitions and misunderstandings into the same unfamiliar space. The night connects people who do not know how closely their experiences are related.
William Shakespeare combines romantic confusion with the disputes of the fairy rulers Oberon and Titania. Puck's interventions unsettle apparently fixed attachments, while the actors' earnest efforts create a different kind of comedy. Desire and imagination continually alter what characters believe they see, making certainty difficult to maintain.
The play explores love, performance and the unstable boundary between waking judgement and dream. Its humour grows from encounters between different ways of understanding the world, inviting readers to consider why feelings can seem absolute in one moment and strangely altered in another, and how theatre gives shape to that changeability.
