Folktales of Asia and Africa
A children's show for families
By Jane Catherine Shaw
December 5 & 6 and 12 & 13
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PHOTOS BY JONATHAN SLAFF
While she is making bread, the hostess discovers that she has guests. As they all wait for the dough to rise she tells them three stories using kitchen utensils to play the characters, in the style of found object puppetry.
Audiences love to see egg beaters hop into cloth napkins to become Japanese sisters dressed in kimonos, as pictured above from The Lantern and the Fan. Or watch as a flour sifter becomes an old man, with a cookie cutter for a pet rabbit, in the Burmese tale The Old Man and The Moon. In Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, a tale from Zimbabwe, two wooden salt and pepper shakers are the daughters who must make a long journey in search of their future husband--and each has her character tested along the way.
This one woman show was created, designed, and performed by Jane Catherine Shaw nearly twenty years ago and has been an audience favorite wherever she has performed it. Children and adults delight in the imaginative use of everyday objects to portray the characters in the three stories. Folktales of Asia and Africa brings puppetry to its essence, in which common objects of daily use assume fantastic character through the artistry of puppetry and the puppeteer.
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