In A Midsummer Night's Dream, do you think the actors are capable of their duties? Explain.Act 1, scene 2

This hilarious scene actually presents us with a parody of
acting - we can only imagine what fun Shakespeare was having writing a scene
specifically for actors where they had to act very badly! I will focus on the character
of Pyramus (otherwise known as Bottom). There are many aspects to be aware of, but
firstly it is impossible to ignore the character of Bottom and his pretentious, arrogant
ways - notice how he tries to drown out all the other actors and poor Quince who is
trying to manage everything. He insists that he can play every character and presumably
gives an impression of how he would perform it:

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And I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too:
I'll speak in a monstrous little voice; Thisney, Thisne, Ah Pyramus my lover dear, thy
Thisby dear, and Lady
dear.

Notice too how Bottom
continually uses words incorrectly in his efforts to be verbose and to sound impressive.
The funniest example in my mind comes at the end of the
scene:

We will
meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and
courageously.

Bottom seems to
be presented as your typical big-headed, arrogant actor who wants to dominate the show
with his supposed "talent". Note too the ridiculous absurd lengths he takes to try and
think about how to dress and get in character:

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I will discharge it, in either your straw colour
beard, your orange tawny beard, your purple in grain beard, or your French-crown
coloured beard, your perfect
yellow.

Equally amusing of
course are Quince's efforts to maintain control and leadership of the situation, and
trying to rein and curtail Bottom's comments! These aspects all demonstrate that this
play that they will perform will be more of a comedy than a tragedy, as their
performance proves later on.