Driftwood Players, the Sunshine Coast amateur theatre company responsible for such recent successes as Melville Boys and Ten Lost Years, takes to the streets of Sechelt and Gibsons over the next two weeks with their project Wagon Tales.
Wagon Tales is based on the story theatre concept where the cast develops scripts from fairy tales and fables. Director Bob Hunt and performers Marilyn Browning, Ingrid Bilton, Janet Hodgkinson, Djenai Stephenson and Skye Wallace have been studying the story theatre style and developing the scripts since last May.
The stories are short, just five or 10 minutes each, and each has its own theme and wry dialogue.
Baba Yaga is a Russian folk tale in which a young girl is sent by her mother to her step-sister, who turns out to be not what was expected. The Tailormade Coat features a boy who is sent to buy some clothes, but returns with a surprising conceit. Trickery in the murder is the basis for The Two Crows, and a bit of culinary temptation leads to misunderstandings for Clever Grethel. And be careful where you leave your things if you run into The Man Who Gave People Things to Look After.
Wagon Tales is partially sponsored by the Sechelt Arts Festival and can be seen in Hackett Park on Sunday, Aug. 3, and outside the Sechelt Public Library during the Coasters Car Club show and shine on Aug. 9. In Gibsons, catch Wagon Tales outside Gibsons Landing market between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 2, as part of the Music in the Landing program.
