Room Names

As you may have noticed, all our rooms are named after characters in

Shakespeare ’s comedies:

From A Midsummer Night's Dream

Room No 1           Titania: the Queen of the Fairies and wife of Oberon  

Room No 2           Hermia: the daughter of Egeus and in love with Lysander

Room No 3           Francis Flute: a bellows-mender and artisan

Room No 6           Oberon: King of the Fairies

Room No 7           Peaseblossom: a fairy ordered by Titania to attend to Bottom after she falls in love with him

Summary:

Shakespeare weaves an intertwined love mesh right from the start – Demetrius and Lysander both court Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns passionately for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the fairies) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists further when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically amusing.

From Twelfth Night

Room No 2           Viola: the female of a brother–sister pair of twins who enters Illyria disguised as Cesario and finds love

Summary:

Brother and sister Viola and Sebastian, who are not only very close but look a great deal alike, are separated in a shipwreck, and both think the other dead. When Viola lands in a foreign country, she dresses as her brother and adopts the name Cesario, becoming a trusted friend and confidante to the Count Orsino. Orsino is madly in love with the lady Olivia, who is mourning her brother's recent death, which she uses as an excuse to avoid seeing the count, whom she does not love. He sends Cesario to do his wooing, and Olivia falls in love with the disguised maiden. Things get more complicated in this bittersweet Shakespeare comedy when a moronic nobleman, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and a self-important servant, Malvolio, get caught up in the schemes of Olivia's cousin, the obese, alcoholic Sir Toby, who leads each to believe Olivia loves him.  Sebastian eventually surfaces in the area, and of course there is Feste, the wise fool, around to keep everything in perspective and to marvel, like we the audience, at the amazing things happening all around.

From As You Like It

Room No 5            Rosalind: daughter of a Duke

Summary:

The story begins with the ousting of the Duke, father of Rosalind, from the throne by his own brother. With some loyal servants he hides in the Forest of Arden, while back in the court Rosalind falls in love with the orphan Orlando and is subsequently thrown out too. Rosalind then disguises herself as a man and calls herself Ganymede, bringing along her friend Celia as her sister 'Aliena'. With them comes Touchstone, the court jester, who has to play-act a romance with Ganymede.