Gemma Whelan credited as playing...
Kate
- Kate: [Kate pretends to have fallen in love with Bottom] 'Tis as if I see thee for the first time. My Bottom! Come, embrace! My Bottom! Kiss! My Bottom. Caress, cuddle and delight. My Bottom!
- Will Shakespeare: [to Greene] Bottom's his name.
- Robert Greene: Oh, of course that's al right then.
- [raises voice]
- Robert Greene: Except not!
- Will Shakespeare: Speaking of which, predatory sprites aside, do you like my Midsummer's Night Dream?
- Kate: If I'm honest, I think it's all a bit mimsy whimsy soppy grotty doo dah.
- Will Shakespeare: Mimsy whimsy soppy grotty doo dah, how can you say that?
- Kate: Well, for a start, three of the principal characters are fairies.
- Will Shakespeare: And proudly so! I would've thought, that you, of all people, would agree that it's high time that members of the FSNEP community were properly represented in popular drama projects.
- Kate: FSNEP?
- Will Shakespeare: Fairy, Sprite, Nymph, Elf and Pixie. FSNEP characters are appallingly underrepresented in mainstream culture.
- Bottom: So you really do believe in fairies then?
- Will Shakespeare: Absolutely! I've met one!
- Kate: You've met an actual fairy?
- Will Shakespeare: Indeed I have. A Puckish sprite, a will-o'-the-wisp in the employ of the Fairy Queen. It was from him that I got the idea for the potion and it is to just such a potion that I owe the love of mine own sweet Anne.
- Kate: Is this one of your jokes?
- Bottom: Could be. I mean it's not funny and that's usually a clue.
- Kate: I am sorry, my lord, but I am spoken for. I love my Bottom.
- Lord Egeus: And with good reason! Fine buttocks, strong flanks. Like a noble horse.