Fairy Tale Performances
Some of The Storycrafters' favorite stories to tell are fairy tales. Rollicking, lyrical, and mysterious, fairy tales are building blocks of human oral literacy, with a long and complex history. The Storycrafters have made a long and comprehensive study of the fairy tale, its history, development, sociology and psychology. They are renowned for their workshops, college courses, and school residencies exploring the fairy tale. The Storycrafters apply their many layers of knowledge and performance techniques to the classic story structure of fairy tales to give a 'true fairy tale experience' to all who hear them tell them.
The Storycrafters tell fairy tales in both classic re-told versions, and in updated, 'fractured' versions. These can be combined in performances of fairy tales, or included in other performances. Available stories include:
Classically re-told, musically accompanied versions:
- "Caballito" - Ecuadoran Cinderella story, in which Cinderella is a boy and the Fairy Godmother is a horse.
- "The Queen Bee": Little-known fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm, celebrating gentleness and cooperation, and good deeds repaid.
- "The Well at the World's End": Scottish fairy tale, combining the well-known stories, "The Frog Prince" and "Diamonds and Toads".
- "The Two Brothers": Jewish fairy tale of riddles and answers, honor and greed, celebrating perseverance and honesty.
- "The Goats and the Bear": Jewish fairy tale variant of the Grimm Bros. "The Wolf and the Kids", in which a bear steals a bunch of kids, and they are rescued by their quick thinking Mother Goat.
Fractured versions:
- Rap Stories
- The Cinderella Rap
- The Princess and the Pea Rap
- The Bremen Town Musicians Rap
- The Jack and the Beanstalk Rap
- The Rumpelstilskin Rap
- The Emperor's New Clothes Rap
- Spoonerized and Word-Play Stories
- Beeping Slooty
- The Three Pears
- Little Bread Riding Hood