King Of The Fairies

Humor makes for 'Midsummer' magic

While the little boys are sufficiently creepy, dressed in black and pulling pranks throughout the show, the little girls are absolutely charming as they sing, dance, giggle and even pull a few pranks of their own. Even more magical is that two of the kids - the fairy Moth and the changeling child - are the real-life children of Kymberly Mellen, who portrays both Titania and Hippolyta. Enhancing the magic on stage is Ben Charles in the role of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, Oberon's knave. He is the king of pranks and prances around the stage like he's lighter than air. Nearly matching him, however, is Magan Wiles as the childlike first fairy. Her lines are few but delivered with brilliant comedic timing. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with the lead female role in "Romeo and Juliet." Blue and green lights twinkle among the forest "vines" onstage, swaying slightly in the breeze of the outdoor theater. Then golden flickers fall lightly over Puck as he suggests we may have been dreaming all along: "If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended, / That you have but slumber'd here / While these visions did appear.

Kingtycoon is Formidable: A Letter From the Fairy Queen

But just a moment later a grey falcon came swooping down in his yard. The King was reading back over his letter and wondering if it was any good when he looked up and noticed the squawking falcon. “Uh, will you take this letter?” He asked the falcon. The Falcon jumped up on the window sill and squawked again. “Okay.” Said the King of the Fairies – who was much better at dealing with plants than birds. The falcon snatched the letter out of the King of the Fairies hand and swooped back up into the sky. Now the Falcon, since you're about to find out, is one of the Queen of the Fairies best and most important friends. This falcon in particular was always ridden by one of the Fairy Queens – the Peregrine Queen who has looked after the Queen of the Fairies for a long time. The Queen of all the Bird Fairies, she doesn't get as many letters as she'd like you know – so when she does get one it's important, and the Peregrine Queen, who was important, was the one to handle it. That Falcon brought the letter straight to the Queen of the Fairies house which is up in the sky, on a special cloud. The Queen opened the letter and began to read. Now the King of the Fairies explained the parts of his story that I've already told you. He explained how he became the King of the Fairies, how he had saved the Fairy Ring in the woods by his house, how he had stopped the long drought and how he had dealt with the Dandelion King's vanity and treachery. Then he asked the Queen of the Fairies to tell him her story. Can you explain how you became the Queen of the Fairies? Is your story like mine? He had written. The Queen of the Fairies thought and thought. Her story was very different, and she felt a little strange trying to think of it all. She wasn't the best at writing things down in the first place, and she sometimes had trouble explaining herself. But she realized that she should tell the King of the Fairies her story because the more she thought about it, and how to tell her story, the more she wanted people to know about it. So she wrote and wrote and tried several times to get it right, and when she was finally finished she sent the King a letter and it was just like this: It started many years ago, I was only a little girl. I lived in a big city with my mother in a tall building. We were alone together. Every day I would wake up early to go to school and my mother would wake up early to go to work. Then I would go to school and come home and be alone for a long time until I would go to sleep. While I was sleeping my mother would come home from work – so most of the time I was alone, except when I would go to school, but at school I was especially alone because I did not like the other children there and they did not like me. They would talk about the TV shows that they liked and they would talk about which boys and girls liked each other and they would make up mean names to call each other. They would especially make up mean names to call me, because I never watched shows and I didn't like any of them and never talked about anyone and never made up mean names to call people. I tried to be as quiet as I could.