Forty Hares and a Princess

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2 -20 December 2003
a co-production with Southwark Playhouse

This was an adapted and renamed version of Crimson Dish, Broken Dish performed in October 2003.

A feast of unusual and entertaining stories from around the world: Forty Hares and a Princess, a Yiddish tale about a cunning shepherd who outwits the royal family; Parsley Girl, Italy’s most popular folk tale; Just Say Hic, the comic adventured of a Turkish boy; The Dream Reader, an adapted Noh play, Benizara and Kakezara, a Japanese version of Cinderella.

Gary Mitchell provided an array of evocative sound on the Sumatran Talempong, conjuring up temples, forests, palaces and magical transformations