Monkey Magic: Chinese Story Theatre

Product Code: MK1000

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

This unusual piece is a colorful collection of Chinese folktales dramatized in an exciting story-theatre form. The plays are linked by a beguiling monkey who uses his magical powers to aid the heroes and heroines and to defeat the villains, providing fantasy and fun. With universal themes and pictorial staging, the folktales are theatre at its best for audiences around the world.

In the Middle of Grand Central Station

Product Code: I44000

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This is a story of survival about a 15-year-old runaway named Marta de Silva who calls Grand Central Station home.

Our Country's Good

Product Code: O42000

Approx. Run Time: 135 min.

In 1789 in an Australian penal colony, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the king's birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant prison camp. Few of them can read, let alone act, and the play is produced against a background of food shortages and barbaric punishments--brilliantly juxtaposed against the civilizing influence of theatrical endeavor.

Long Walk to Forever

Product Code: L61000

Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

Realizing he loves his childhood friend Catharine, Newt goes AWOL from the army and hitchhikes home to see her before she marries another man.

Wiley and the Hairy Man

Product Code: W66000

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Like Aesop's fables, Wiley and the Hairy Man is drawn from native folk wisdom. "Outwit the Hairy Man three times, and he won't scare you ever again," says Mammy. Trembling, Wiley sets out for the woods, prepared to confront the Hairy Man; he looks fear in the face and outwits it. The adventures are presented in lyric poetry and mime. The actors become the woods, the cabin, and all the props, making Wiley imaginative and easy to mount.