School Version

46. Mechanicals Dance

The double-quick-time, circus-like choral routine to brassy 'Big Top' music makes an appropriately festive finale to the play-within-the play-within-the-play.

By contrast, the Bar version finale's musical routine (Bar 47. Mechanicals Disco) is a disco number.

Note that the School scene is played out under a 15th night moon which, although clouded over, still seems to spill its light from above the School backdrop into the muddy-white circle of theatrical enchantment.

See also: Mask 42. Mechanicals dance

A Midsummer Night's Dream