I love shakespeare! I once did a very hilarious and self-referencial play about a theatre group preforming romeo and juliette and another very self referencial play about a group playing shakespear and then someone getting killed. And titania is my favorite role ever. EVER. This year however we are doing a terrible play. Terrible. It is about the towns history and yay for that but eugh! The play starts with a rape scene and the person chosen to play the rapist CONSTANTLY checks all the teenaged girls out. LIKE CONSTANTLY. And every woman in the entire cast looks away when we do that scene because the girl playing against him is like 19 and he is like 60 or something. Ugh. Also once when I came in he hugged me from behind. And I had to restrain myself to not fuckin' kill him. With a ton of force.
I've seen a couple different productions with that same performers-become-the-characters premise, lol. It's surprisingly common! (Personally, my favorite roles are Prospero and Coriolanus, but Titannia's great.) As for the play you're working on, that sounds just awful. Sorry to hear that you have to endure it.
Thank you. The play was more about a diva actror being killed and averyone agreeing he was a dick and everyone had a motive. Written by my current director. She is such a boss, amazing woman.