AT A GLANCE...

A sung-through, one-act musical fairy-tale about what happens when too much fairy dust gets thrown in the mix! 45 minutes of all-singing and all-dancing fun, with potential for puppetry and ambitious choreography. 

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ROLES: 8m, 5f, with flexible chorus including a number of small speaking roles. 

 

MUSIC: 13 songs (sung-through) orchestrated for 9-piece band. The style is swing/pop/rock with a nod to Disney!

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OVERVIEW

It's four hundred years since Shakespeare put him on the stage and mischief-loving Puck is still causing mayhem in a modern-day enchanted wood. But what happens when his magic misfires, leading a young girl, Willow, and her parents into a life they hadn’t bargained for? ​

This charming and fast-paced musical plays with the traditional fairy-tale form, using a close-harmony quartet of fairies (Mustardseed, Peaseblossom, Cobweb and Moth) as narrators.

 

As the play begins, Jack and Jill fall in love and are nudged into a happily married life by Puck. But his meddling soon plunges them into a new life in the city, and Willow's idyllic woodland childhood comes to an end. She endures a tough time as a teenager at the local school before Puck decides to come to the rescue and prove that no problem in life can't be solved some fairy dust and fun. 

This is a musically-challenging and exciting show, perfect for schools or youth groups. Young Willow was portrayed through a puppet in the original production; equally, she could be played by a young actor. 

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Watch the short teaser below from the 2022 Oxford Playhouse premiere.

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