Telling Tales in Hackney

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November, 2002
National Trust House, Sutton House

Performed by, Jane Barber, Pancho Cappeletti, Mark Holloway, Montserrat Roig de Puig, Sam Scudder. Music played by Katja Mervola and Nathan Thomson. Directed by Alys Kihl, designed by Ruth Paton.

Wonderful Beast presented a family show on a sunday afternoon to a packed Sutton House. The audience was treated to The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen, Labismina a Brazilian tale of a young girl who must escape her father and who is helped by an enchanted snake; Tatterhood the wild and wayward twin who saves her sister`s head from a pack of trolls; The Finger Lock a Scottish version of Cinderella introducing Johnnie, who gets the better of his bullying brothers by his magical violin playing. Audience participation helped to bring these wonderful and unusual stories to life.