destroys that contract.
But what happens when that slumber is denied? What happens when the forest is not a place of escape, but a labyrinth of insomnia? SLEEPLESS -A Midsummer Night-s Dream-
In the final moments, the three couples are married. The mechanicals perform their play-within-a-play ("Pyramus and Thisbe") as a grotesque, jerky puppet show. But as Theseus declares that the "iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve," the lights do not go out. They flicker. They surge. Puck appears not as a trickster, but as a stage manager holding a broken clock. destroys that contract