Tristan’s 6th grade class put on Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ play and Tristan played Bottom.  Bottom is what was termed a ‘rude mechanical’ basically a group of common people who are not too bright and are in the play to provide humor.  In this play Bottom is the head of a small group of men who are going to do a play for the local ruler.  Puck (a farie) sees them practicing in the forest and decides to give Bottom a donkey’s head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream#Plot (click if you want a longer explanation of the story).