Demetrius: O let me kiss This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss! Helena: O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment. If you were civil, and knew courtesy, You would not do me this much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock me too? If you were men, as men you are in show, You would not use a gentle lady so: To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, When I am sure you hate me with your hearts. (3.2.143-154)

33. Lysander, Demetrius kiss Deguchi employs the comic gag of having Demetrius and Lysander compete in kissing up Helena's arms until, when Helena suddenly wrenches her arms away, they kiss each other. The action raises two laughs from the audience (lines 3.2.151,154) at Helena's disoriented assumption that Demetrius and Lysander must be gay. The Bar version (Bar 35. Boys drop pants) is, as we might expect of a night club, much more grotesque in its 'stripper' routines. The Mask version (Mask 26. Demetrius overacts) is more theatrically stylised, playing big in an intimate space in a way that must stun the audience as much as it does Helena.