Cobweb Dreams - One Act Version
by Lindsay Price
Cobweb dreams of a different life, away from Titania's train.
Average Producer Rating:
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
Reviews from Past Producers
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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Characters
19
2 Men, 12 Women, 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.
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COBWEB
[W]
168 lines
- A young Woodland Fairy. One of Titania’s fairies in waiting. Stumpy. Loud.
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TITANIA
[W]
78 lines
- Queen of the Fairies.
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PEASEBLOSSOM
[W]
22 lines
- Fairy in waiting. Haughty.
- MOTH [W]
- Fairy in waiting. Kind. $l 24
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MUSTARDSEED
[W]
21 lines
- Fairy in waiting. Disdainful.
- SPARKLE [W]
- Water fairy. Shiny, bubbly, and quite forgetful. $l 31
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FROTH
[W]
1 line
- Water fairy. Shiny, bubbly, and quite forgetful.
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FLICKER
[W]
1 line
- Water fairy. Shiny, bubbly, and quite forgetful.
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LARKSPUR
[W]
45 lines
- Flower Fairy. Beautiful and vain. Mean girls.
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MARIGOLD
[W]
31 lines
- Flower Fairy. Beautiful and vain. Mean girls.
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PERI
[W]
7 lines
- Flower Fairy. Beautiful and vain. Mean girls.
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WILLOW
[W]
81 lines
- Woodland Fairy. Friends of Cobweb. Rough and tumble. Mischievous.
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THICKET
[A]
49 lines
- Woodland Fairy. Friends of Cobweb. Rough and tumble. Mischievous.
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OBERON
[M]
23 lines
- King of the Fairies.
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PUCK
[A]
51 lines
- Oberon’s right-hand fairy.
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DREG
[A]
10 lines
- Punk Fairy. Total punk.
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MUCK
[A]
5 lines
- Punk Fairy. Total punk.
- BOG [A]
- Punk Fairy. Total punk. $l 8
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BOTTOM
[M]
23 lines
- A mortal with a donkey’s head.
- Subgenres
- Fantasy Fables/Folktales Adaptation Movement-based
- 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
- Set
- Simple set Exterior set
- Themes
- Bullying Friendship Relationships Individuality Self-image
- Cross-Curricular Uses
- Shakespeare
- Other uses
- Competition Class work
Prop List
large leaf, weeds, script, donkey’s head
Production Photos
Multimedia
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Cobweb Dreams - One Act Version
by Lindsay Price
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