Midsummer Night's Dream?

Question

Which character is the Japanese one? Is it Titania? Don't laugh if I'm totally wrong, I went to see it with the school and there was a Japanese woman speaking Japanese and I forgot which one she was? It was bloody hard to follow aswell!

Answer 1

I dont recall there ever eing a japanese character in shakespeares play , maybe it was just a twist added by the stage director.

a weird adaptation I must say...

Answer 2

I studied the play in school last year.. there isn't a Japanese character. That's just something the director has added in, presumably for some kind of affect.  

Answer 3

"MSD" really IS hard to follow.  It is written in 16th century Elizabethan English with all of the phrases, social references and colloquialisms of the time, of course, and while the actual plot is not that complicated, there are a lot of characters and there is a play within a play.  Tatiana is the Queen of the fairies but despite the sound of the name is not Japanese.  If a Japanese woman was playing one of the roles I cannot IMAGINE that she was the only one speaking a foreign language.  Maybe she had a heavy accent and it just was hard to "hear" the words that she was speaking.  Heck, I've heard Brits speaking ENGLISH and I had trouble understanding them.