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Cobweb Dreams - One Act Version

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

Cobweb Dreams - One Act Version

by Lindsay Price

Cobweb dreams of a different life, away from Titania's train.

 About 35 minutes

Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks

 19
2 M | 12 W | 5 Any Gender

Unit set

 42 pages

Comedy Movement-based Shakespeare

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I want to be just what I am. A dirty, scruffy, trickster fairy! Why do I have to change? When Titania called my name, I should have said, “No thank you. I’m going to splash in a mud puddle.”

Cobweb is not having a good time as part of Titania’s train. She dreams of a life where she plays pranks all day long and doesn't have to be a stuffy, stuck-up fairy in waiting. If only it was a simple as crossing the brook to be part of Oberon’s train!

But life in the woods is not simple. The King and Queen fight tooth and nail, Cobweb fights to make her dreams come true, and her friends fight to keep her from being turned into a toadstool. A mortal with a donkey head has wandered into the grove and the flower fairies blame Cobweb. Oh will this midsummer night never end?

Cobweb Dreams is a fun-filled fantasy that runs parallel to the events of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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19 Characters
2 M, 12 W, 5 Any Gender

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

COBWEB [W] 168 lines
A young Woodland Fairy. One of Titania’s fairies in waiting. Stumpy. Loud.
TITANIA [W] 78 lines
Queen of the Fairies.
PEASEBLOSSOM [W] 22 lines
Fairy in waiting. Haughty.
MOTH [W]
Fairy in waiting. Kind. $l 24
MUSTARDSEED [W] 21 lines
Fairy in waiting. Disdainful.
SPARKLE [W]
Water fairy. Shiny, bubbly, and quite forgetful. $l 31
FROTH [W] 1 line
Water fairy. Shiny, bubbly, and quite forgetful.
FLICKER [W] 1 line
Water fairy. Shiny, bubbly, and quite forgetful.
LARKSPUR [W] 45 lines
Flower Fairy. Beautiful and vain. Mean girls.
MARIGOLD [W] 31 lines
Flower Fairy. Beautiful and vain. Mean girls.
PERI [W] 7 lines
Flower Fairy. Beautiful and vain. Mean girls.
WILLOW [W] 81 lines
Woodland Fairy. Friends of Cobweb. Rough and tumble. Mischievous.
THICKET [A] 49 lines
Woodland Fairy. Friends of Cobweb. Rough and tumble. Mischievous.
OBERON [M] 23 lines
King of the Fairies.
PUCK [A] 51 lines
Oberon’s right-hand fairy.
DREG [A] 10 lines
Punk Fairy. Total punk.
MUCK [A] 5 lines
Punk Fairy. Total punk.
BOG [A]
Punk Fairy. Total punk. $l 8
BOTTOM [M] 23 lines
A mortal with a donkey’s head.

Subgenres
Fantasy Adaptation Movement-based Character study Fairy tales

Settings
16th Century / Elizabethan

Dress
Elaborate costumes Fantasy costumes Period costumes

Audience
All audiences Children Pre-teen Teen

Features
Masks Tableau Physical comedy Variable gender breakdown Sound & Lighting Design Character study Clowning Opportunity for spectacle SEL

Set
Simple set Exterior set Opportunity for spectacle

Themes
Bullying Friendship Relationships Individuality Self-image Love Obedience Peer pressure Personal responsibility

Cross-Curricular Uses
Shakespeare

Other uses
Competition Class work Scene work

Prop List

large leaf, weeds, script, donkey’s head

Production Photos

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