<Li> A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002) directed by Gil Cates Jr. changes the setting to a modern rave . Puck is a drug dealer, the magic flower called love - in - idleness is replaced with magic ecstasy, and the King and Queen of Fairies are the host of the rave and the DJ . </Li> <Li> Were the World Mine (2008) features a modern interpretation of the play put on in a private high school in a small town . </Li> <Li> Strange Magic (2015) was inspired by the play . </Li> <Ul> <Li> The "play within a play" from Act V, Scene I, Pyramus and Thisbe, was performed by the members of the British pop music group The Beatles on 28 April 1964 for a British television special, Around The Beatles . Paul McCartney appeared as Pyramus, John Lennon as Thisbe, George Harrison as Moonshine, and Ringo Starr as Lion . The performance, before a live audience, was done with great comic intent and included a number of intentional hecklers . This was broadcast in the UK on ITV on 6 May, and in the US on ABC on 15 November . </Li> <Li> The 1981 BBC Television Shakespeare production was produced by Jonathan Miller and directed by Elijah Moshinsky . It starred Helen Mirren as Titania, Peter McEnery as Oberon, Phil Daniels as Puck, Robert Lindsay as Lysander, Geoffrey Palmer as Quince and Brian Glover as Bottom . </Li> <Li> An abbreviated version of A Midsummer Night's Dream was made into an animated short (with the same title) by Walt Disney Television Animation in 1999 as part of the Mouse Tales series . It was featured in a 2002 episode of Disney's House of Mouse ("House of Scrooge", Season 3, Episode 34). The star - crossed lovers are played by Mickey Mouse (Lysander), Minnie Mouse (Hermia), Donald Duck (Demetrius), and Daisy Duck (Helena). The character based on Theseus is played by Ludwig Von Drake, and the character based on Egeus by Scrooge McDuck . Goofy appears as an accident - prone Puck . The story ends with the revelation that it was a dream experienced by Mickey Mouse while sleeping at a picnic hosted by Minnie . </Li> <Li> In 2005 ShakespeaRe - Told, the BBC TV series, aired an updated of the play . It was written by Peter Bowker . The cast includes Johnny Vegas as Bottom, Dean Lennox Kelly as Puck, Bill Paterson as Theo (a conflation of Theseus and Egeus), and Imelda Staunton as his wife Polly (Hippolyta). Lennie James plays Oberon and Sharon Small is Titania . Zoe Tapper and Michelle Bonnard play Hermia and Helena . </Li> <Li> BBC1's 2016 production was a 90 - minute filmic adaptation by Russell T Davies directed by David Kerr starring Matt Lucas as Bottom, Maxine Peake as Titania, and with a diverse cast including Nonso Anozie as Oberon, Prisca Bakare as Hermia and Hiran Abeysekera as Puck . </Li> </Ul>

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