Story Theatre Play Synopsis

The sky falls...beasts sing...a mother's corpse is exhumed...a young maiden is poisoned...a master thief plies his trade...the goddess of love works her magic...a simpleton marries a princess...and a woman becomes Pope! All this and more happens in Story Theatre, Paul Sills' adaptations of some favorite stories from Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.

This hilarious script, composed of ten separate stories, is a theatrical tour de force that demands virtuosity from its actors and imagination from its audience, as a bare stage becomes, in swift succession, a wealthy village, a town of robbers, a raging sea or a count's castle. Storytelling, music, ingenious props, simple costumes and the efforts of the play's ensemble combine to bring these classic tales to life.

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