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Round the World Tales
Adapted from Japanese, Swedish and Nicaraguan folk tales

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Author(s):
Steven  Schutzman

This easy-to-stage, highly theatrical, entertaining cycle of three 20 minute plays from folklores around the world focuses on the important themes of generosity and greed. The plays show how greed throws people out of balance with their land and traditions, with each other and with themselves, and how generosity-the sense that one has gifts to share-can re-establish balance and connection between people and their world. In the Swedish tale, The Old Woman and the Tramp, a happy-go-lucky rhyming wanderer ingeniously brews up an outrageous soup to show a woman how to enjoy life again. The Japanese Tongue-Cut Sparrow tells how a wife's cruelty to her husband's pet ignites magical forces of good and evil to prove that people get what they deserve. In the third play, The Invisible Hunters from Nicaragua, two hunters gain the power of invisibility, but instead of using it to feed their village, they upset their tribe's traditional balance with nature.

Play Details:
Genre(s): Comedy
Time Period(s): Not Available
Play Type: Play
Runtime: 55 minutes
Acts: 1
Set Complexity: Not Available
Set Information: Not Available
Year First Published: Not Available
Total Characters: 13
Male Characters: Not Available
Female Characters: Not Available
Androgynous Characters:13
Minimum Cast: 3
Maximum Cast: 13
Cost: $4.25 per script ($30 royalty per performance)
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Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service
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ISBN: Not Available

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