A takeoff of the mechanicals from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Automobile mechanic Bottom and his garage pals find a strange book of magic spells. They gather together the materials need in the bool and repair to the forest to try out one of the spells!
Big mistake, they awaken the fairyfolk and their nemesis Robin Goodfellow! Chaos ensues as they desperately battle the forces of evil unleashed .
Written for young people (teenagers) this large cast play runs about fifty minutes and is great fun.
Read an extract here:
Bottom: Never mind the weather, we’ve got a lot to do, give the book to me.
(Snug picks up book and hands it to Bottom who opens it and flicks through the pages until he comes to the page he wants. All crowd around him as he does so.)
Bottom:Ha!(All jump back in surprise) here it is.
Flute (Quoting from the book)Ye spelle fore love potion.
Bottom: No no wrong one, Quince is already head over heels in love.
(Flicks through book again, all crowd in.)
Bottom: Ha!(All jump back) This is it
Snout: (Quoting from book) Ye wicked art of seduction
Bottom: No no not that one, Helena has already taken care of that bit
(Flicks through book again, all crowd in)
Bottom: Ha!(All jump back )This is it
Snug : Ye ritual for Spanish flu
Bottom: Spanish Fly idiot. It’s Spanish Fly
Starveling: Spanish Fly! What’s wrong with a good old English fly that’s what I say. Blasted EEC takin’ over everything
Snug: What’s Spanish Fly?
Flute: Nothing for little boys to wonder about
Snug: I’m a man! I’m not a little boy any longer, look I’ve got my own lunch box.
(Holds out his lunchbox for all to see.)
Bottom: Yes, you’re a real little man now aren’t you!
(All laugh)
Snug: Well I don’t think that’s at all funny!
Bottom: Never mind little Snuggy .Come on now lads, things to do, things to do!
(Drops his haversack, rummages about inside and produces the candles stuck in plastacine (to keep them upright) which he lays on the floor. He takes the book and lays it out, the others gather around.)
Bottom: Now then lads, we have to make a demonic circle with these candles.
Flute : What’s a demonic circle boss?
Starveling:It’s a new kind of chocolate bar.
Snout: It’s a Satanic symbol.
Snug: Cymbal? Are we having a band then?
Bottom: Not that sort of symbol idiot. It’s a bit of magic, a bit of fun for Quincy. Now then let me see……
(Slowly turns some more pages in the book)
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