Poetry Friday: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Catch them. During most of Puck's speech (I start on "glide" and others at other points) we slowly move the lights around, observe and use them like cool tricks or treasures. By the time Oberon is talking about briar, we are all lying on the bed with the eggs sitting in front of us, in a nest of sorts, and we're looking at them. Then, with "each fairy stray," we pick them back up and swish elsewhere until "blessed be." The only other time the lights are used is when all the lovers go to sleep and there's a blackout, during which they get under the covers, rearrange, switch positions, etc. During that blackout, I cross the stage and walk around the bed while holding and playing with an egg, then turn it off, at which point the light comes on on top of the bower (up behind the headboard), where the scene with Titania and Bottom takes place. I'm the last fairy Bottom calls up, so that gives me a few seconds to get to the ladder and prepare to enter. It's cool.