Aesop's (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables

Description

en_US By Kim Esop Wylie

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:11Z

en_US 1999-02

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:11Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US Here are six fables as engaging contemporary plays. In each case the drama takes a playful approach to the fable. Thus DS can engage in good irony when it has the narrator speak of the butcher trying to have a sincere and calm conversation with the dog while both run across the stage (9). In fact the narrator's introduction to this dog had run through a list of negative qualities--including dirty fingernails and unbrushed teeth--but then pronounced him a great dog. This piece is especially strong on narrator-audience interaction as the latter must pronounce the dog's name each time the narrator comes to it. TH revolves around love (the narrator becomes infatuated with both tortoise and hare) and aerobics; the race emerges as a possibility only in the last few paragraphs and comes to a conclusion only at the end of the last playlet, MM. LM is about the mouse's notoriety and humor, FG about seduction and Olympics-like games. MSA deals with political correctness and activists; it features a butcher, who seems to have wandered into the story from nowhere, and the coffee-guzzling hare from TH. The protagonist in MM has not milk but two perfect eggs. As with all comedy, some of the elements of parody are time-bound. How long will Mission Impossible themes be recognized by audiences?

Identifier

en_US 0874400309

en_US 3982 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79322

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Baker's Plays

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PR9133.3.W95 A38 1998 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole