School Version

38. Mustardseed

Though Bottom's attendant fairies obviously enjoy playing out his fantasy of their 'cuteness', note their vampish red stockings.

Theatre audiences would easily have been reminded of the ongoing scandals, publicized since the 1980s in all major newspapers, about schoolgirls working as part time prostitutes to pay for designer label shopping habits. At this point in the action, the School version seems to anticipate the Bar version (Bar 38. Pampered Bottom).

A Midsummer Night's Dream