Feylight Garden Theatre

The Feylight Garden Theatre is a collaboration between Darites and the fey of the Court of Harmony. The building’s original concept was to be just at theatre, but the young queen and newest archfey of the ’Wilds, Merla the Sun-Blessed, Queen of Virtue and Virtuosity, has found a way to push the boundaries of what is possible.

In a time of great growth and change for the Feywild it is no surprise this young monarch’s first project outside of settling into her own role as Queen would be something that would see both mortals and fey working together in harmony to create a true work of art.

With the trees of the original site incorporated into the structure itself, the Feylight Garden Theatre goes beyond being a beautiful and clever piece of architecture. It boasts of being the only “double-decker” theatre and concert hall anywhere this side of Toril. With plenty of light and a soft thrum of music that harkens to the court it’s patron calls home, one hardly notices they are indoors. Looking up to the ceiling in one of four main lobbies sees the sky as it appears that day swirling with Skywrite messages of daily affirmations. The source? A beautiful statue tribute to one of Daring’s finest bards who was much loved by the adventuring community, Faust Greyheart.

The building also has two rehearsal halls, rooms for private music study, cosy classrooms for aspiring thespians, dressing rooms for both the theatre and concert hall, and plenty of staff both of mortal and fey descent working in it’s halls. The building could rival that of any bardic college found in such metropolises like Waterdeep in Faerûn!

But the main attractions – the theatre and the concert hall – are each distinctly different in personality. One might even say they are two sides of Queen Merla herself!

The theatre is a botanical fantasy with its walls painted in living murals that harken to being surrounded by an enchanted forest, the ceiling a mass of real, living beech boughs dotted with twinkling lanterns filled with fey light. The theatre has already opened its doors to it’s very first play, inspired by a “true story” (if one is to believe the tales) called The Badger Stole What Now?!

Where the theatre gives the impression of being under the canopy of trees, safely tucked away where one can enjoy the cathartic release of whatever play the actors are performing that evening, the concert hall’s high vaulted ceiling creates the frame for the magical music box that brings together all sorts of decorative art imaginable: sculptures, mosaic covered pillars, stained glass windows and fine woodwork.

Yet to host its own first world premier – though rumours abound that a collaboration between the students of Red’s School and the Orchestra of the Court of Harmony may have passed by by this writer’s eager ears! – the space is something to behold.

Dominated by an organ over the stage with a colossal central skylight portraying the sun, the auditorium is filled with natural light. A mystical, paradoxical hall, populated with figures found in legends and myths from the Material Plane and Faen Realms surround the stage, with natural motifs everywhere else including flowers, more trees, and even decadent fey fruits like nevermore. (Don’t worry, they are just sculptures and thus not edible.)

If you have not yet seen the Feylight Garden Theatre then you are missing out on one of the finest homes of Art and Beauty in Daring Heights!