A Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream With All Kinds of Shenanigans
Faerie Rachel Doth Not Take the Officer of the Law With Due Seriousness
Cast:
Faeries Lesley, Jane, Tara, Tara’s Mum, Debs, Michael, Charlotte, Rachel, Geoffrey, Helen, Lynne, Oakley and Honey.
An Officer of the Law
Bottom
A Young Surfer Dude
A Mostly Silent Man But For Fair Swearing
Faerie Lesley Wafts
Act 1
New Bridge Car Park, close to the great river Dart, on a Mizzled and Gloomy Midsummer’s Eve. Water Faeries are wafting and gathering wild flowers and ivy for to adorn their faerie heads. Wings are sprouting willy nilly. A chequered Vauxhall Estate of yellow and blue enters stage left, driven by an Officer of the Law. The Officer of the Law winds down his window and beckons to Faerie Rachel.
Officer of the Law: ‘Fair spinster, I think you be what I seek’
Faerie Rachel (a Faerie of a certain age, posing appealingly): ‘What, Faeries in the woods?’
Officer of the Law (scoffing openly): ‘No, fair spinster I seek the Ravers of whom I have heard tell from the great Baron of these Woods, who in his turn heard this tale from a former serf who overheard some yoofs discussing it in the local hostelry, the name and location of which I have forgot’.
Faerie Rachel: (pouring a cup of elderflower tea and dropping in a couple of soluble Es which fizz and emit an enchanted greenish glow) ‘Verily Officer I know not who or what might be this Raver of which you speak. I am Faerie Rachel, a Faerie of A Certain Age and these be my Wild Band of Merrie Water Faeries. I have not raved for many Super-Moons, and indeed may normally be found tucked up in my Faerie bed at so late an hour as this’.
Officer of the Law: ‘Faerie Rachel I see those eyes are ringed with darkness, and so I presumed you had not seen your bed for many Super-Moons indeed. I had not clocked that you was a Faerie of a Certain Age, since you has tresses the colour of the sun what shines over the Moors in the early morn, and a face near free of crow’s feet and other give away lines’.
Faerie Rachel: (attempting to scowl through her botox and lobbing a handful of Faerie Dust through the window of the car, which Faerie Michael blows off-course towards Spitchwick): ‘What art thou trying to say, oh Officer of the Law? Dost I look like a Raver? A hex on you! I wish you a particularly horrible and endless night shift involving a gaggle of drunks and a complicated mix-up over a parking ticket’.
Faerie Jane: (Now changed into a winged wetsuit and flirting shamelessly) ‘Have you seen my beautiful Faerie wings, oh Officer of the Law? Don’t you wish to stroke them? They have glitter on them and everything!’
Officer of the Law: (Sticks the blues on and drives away, muttering) ‘I fear tis not safe for a youthful and lone Officer of the Law in these enchanted parts…’
Faerie’s Tara and Tara’s Mum
Act 2
The Car Park at Spitchwick.
Faerie Lesley: (Wafting yards of netting) ‘But soft, I hear drunken mooing, has yon Faerie Rachel been Faerie dusting again’?
Faerie Rachel: ‘Forsooth I mooed when I gave birth, yet verily there was no such dust around in those days of yore, when we had simply gas and air. You may be mistaken that my Faerie Dust has blown astray, fair Water Faeries’
Bottom: (wetting himself, swigging many quarts of cyder and mooing some more) ‘I know not where I is, mine friends is gone away with the Faeries, take me home, pleeeeeeease, and bring me my beautiful cow for I am truly in love!’
Faeries: ‘We be going for our Midsummer’s Eve swim in yonder great river, but verily several of us might fall helpless in love with you, dear Bottom, for tis an enchanted eve this eve and we are dressed to Rave. Though of course yon dark and dangly depths of enchanted water be most chilled, and forsooth will dampen the ardour of all but Faeries Jane, Michael, Charlotte and Deb who are attired in Faerie Neoprene With Glittering Wings’.
Bottom: (Sobs, moos yet more) ‘I know not what I be doing, I know not where be mine friends, I know not what I be doing, I love this fair cow, see her lashes and her brown eyes like the pool in which we shall swim!’
(Faeries flutter away towards the pool, wings dripping in the mizzle)
Faeries Michael and Charlotte
Act 3
The Pool at Spitchwick
(Faeries waft up and down the pool, Faerie Honey frolics with a ball beneath the bank, Faerie Oakley steals Faerie Honey’s ball)
Enter Young Surfer Dude, friend of Bottom, attired in orange board shorts
Young Surfer Dude: (Slurring and posing) ‘Hey, so be you Faeries of Wild Swimming? What be your purpose in these beautiful parts? Know you why we be here, me and my friends, who have vodka and stuff and a boy-racer car with twin exhausts and a thundersome box and are camping in these enchanted woods on this enchanted eve, and did you know I can verily jump into yon pool from the very very pinnacle of yon cliff, which is of course but a quarter as high as the many cliffs off what I have leapt in my time, what with me being verily a yoof and a surfer, and also I hail from the magic land of Kernow’?
Faerie Helen: (raises eyes to heaven) ‘Yoofy Surfer Dude I am interested not in your great feats of manhood, but rather what you may have secreted in yon board shorts. Be there flap jacks in there’?
Young Surfer Dude: ‘Faerie Helen just you watch and you will be complete unable to resist my displays of manhood’! (Dips toe into water, undips toe, runs away)
Faeries: (Guffaw, swim up and down, chatter and giggle, waft a bit more, float some flowers downstream)
Enter Young Surfer Dude again, wearing a 7mm wetsuit. (Leaps into water, climbs cliff, leaps from top, over and over again sending giant waves of enchanted water across the pool).
Faerie Lesley: ‘Dratted Surfer Dudes, now I am wetter than ever and mine sunflower has bedraggled’.
Faerie Jane: ‘Forsooth I am most grateful for these wings, what have glitter on them and everything, for otherwise I should verily have sunk without trace’
Faeries Charlotte and Debs: (faint with admiration for the enormous size of the enchanted waves, and discussing the purchase of surf boards on ebay) Wooo Hooo!
Faerie Helen: (screams) ‘Shark’!
Weaving Watery Spells
Act 4
Faerie Michael: ‘Forsooth, I am without neoprene and my suit of clothes has vanished! What enchanted woods are these? I and Faerie Charlotte shall depart for the lovely hostelry of which we have heard tell, though we know not where it be’
Bottom: (Some miles away) ‘Moooooooooooooooooo! Moooooooooooooooo!
Silent Swearing Man: ‘Shut the f**k up!’
Surfer Dude: ‘Silent friend let us take off to our hidden tent, and let us make merry with this bottle of vodka while leaving Bottom to moo. For verily he is driving me away with the Faeries also, and besides he has a new friend who is a rather winsome cow, perchance a belted Galloway. And I rather fancy mine chances with you…for your swearing hath aroused me something rotten.’
Exit stage left, pursued by a Mooooooo!
Fairies: (Drying off with Faerie towels and refuelling on flap jacks and gin-soaked lemon drizzle cake) ‘Let us go to yon hostelry which be up yon hill, past Bottom’
Bottom: ‘Mooooooooooooo! I be lost, oh take me home dear Water Faeries for I cannot be alone no more in this enchanted place and now mine cow have departed while I were somewhat indisposed and wetting mine pants some more’.
Faeries: ‘Bottom, move not and we shall find your friends for you’ (Faeries seek and search in vain, for at least a minute, before departing for the local hostelry)
Watery Faeries With Wings and Glitter and Everything
Act 5
The Local Hostelry
Faerie Tara: ‘Hail fine Land Lord, furnish me at once with a hot chocolate as big as my face, for I no longer care about the events of this enchanted midsummer eve. I need chocolate!’
Faerie Lesley: ‘Mine be a quart of your finest ale, mine landlord, and make it fast since the witching hour is almost upon us…’.
Faerie Tara’s Mum: ‘I worry about poor Bottom, all alone and with his loves departed. What should we do…’
Faerie Jane: ‘Fear not on this enchanted eve, for I have bewitched the Officer of the Law and have insisted that he shall seek and seek and seek through the mizzzle and the hawthornes and the crab apples till he be soaked through and chilled to them there bones. How dare he be so rude to poor Faerie Rachel of a Certain Age.’
The clock strikes midnight and the Water Faeries melt away…The Officer of the Law seeks Bottom endlessly in vain over a long and enchanted night, before eventually falling into a dreamy sleep after a lunch of a stale Co-Op donut and a bag of crisps.
All returns to normal on the enchanted Double Dart, where Water Faeries play and yoofs and Old Dears Rave…
Bedraggled Sunflower
wildwomanswimming 
Utterly brilliant!
What a night! Thanks…xxx
Lovely lovely Lynne, I’ve just roared with laughter in a most unfaerie like manner. You are magical!
Faerie Jane x
Thank you Faerie Jane – but I would have had no Shakespearean epic without you! xx
Wonderful tales of fabulous faeries x
Glad you enjoyed it – it’s all true!
absolutely hilarious! Genius. Who needs the Bard?
xxxx
Hilarious! Keep spreading your faeiry dust over the web.
I will! Glad you liked it, and it’s all true with a tiny bit of artistic licence…
Totally brilliant – I definitely missed a great night out viz turning up at some lousy trailer park club instead – next time I shall listen to the wise and partake ….
That’ll learn you!
‘Tis a fine tale ye weave….We on the other side of the Pond are enchanted, and hope that someday, through some Faerie spell, we may share a wild swim such as you have described…. — Your bewitched admirers of the “West Neck Pod”
I hope you can fly over here very soon, West Neck Pod! It’s magic!
Dear faerie, what tale thou tells of midsummer eve jolity. But thou should know that still on the officer of the law does lie your hex and still he patrols on lone deserted road as if bewitched and of an eve when all other folk have gone to their homes he does accost all those who would stand and drip in yon car park and he asks of them news of the faeries and the ravers and the surfer dude. And in his trance yon dude still postures on far ledge high above the water waiting for those unwary swimmers who, passing below, do not see him adorned in his noprene finery until he does plunge into the river and visit such waves and splashing and discord upon the most peaceful evening. For surely ye know that your labours will be returned to you threefold and now ’tis time to lift your hex lest the officer he will most unlawfully sieze upon and carry away swimming folk in his Astra with blue and yellow stripe and flashing light and it will go most unkindly for those of the watery persuasion. And when your hex is lifted then all will agree that your hour upon the stage is done and the officer of the law will find his way down from the hill to his rest where his donut and tea await him.