is it a kind of dream?

David's Lysander was sex on legs, oh yes.  Especially when covered in mud.

Diana Rigg's Helena and Helen Mirren's Hermia were superb. Judi Dench's Titania looked a little weird nearly nude and in green makeup, but still, she was beautiful, even with her tremendous and obvious overbite.

Ian Richardson was strangely compelling as the green and menacing Oberon, and shortarse Ian Holm's Puck was *adorable* in green makeup, even if his tongue had a life of its own.

I thought the rest of the cast were inconsequential, but I did recognise Clive Swift as Snug, from Keeping Up Appearances as Hyacinth Bucket's poor husband Richard, and an episode of Who from the middle 80s, can't remember which.

Given the times they lived in, i thought they did pretty well, effects wise, direction-wise, and so on. Especially seeing as Peter Hall was a stage director, not a TV director, hence a lot of the asides with actors talking to the screen, as they would be talking to an audience in live theatre.

I thought it was a terrific production and not overbearingly heavy on the language, like Shakespeare can be. Like 5 sentences for one word, that kind of thing, and you're lost in verbeage (i'm finding it true in recent RSC productions, frankly). I got it and i didnt have to rewind 5 times to catch up with wtf they were trying to say.

I can/will watch it again. It was that enjoyable.