& Company
Storyman Live!
Spring 2012.
This story starts in real time in Baltimore City, leaps back
into the antique era of a genuine Russian folktale,
all the while having fun with the questions in the subtitle.
(Not suitable for children younger than 17.)
Works best with audiences of at least 10 persons,
but not much larger than 25, and in a space
not requiring a live microphone.
Consider hosting this 40-minute program in your parlor
for friends, neighbors, or arranging for an organization to feature this as a special event or as part of a special day.
Questions via e-mail welcome.
ON THE HUNT
How Long Does It Take To Get Married? or,
What Might You and I Have In Common With
Ivan Tsarevich and Younger Arnold?
How Long Does It Take To Get Married? or,
What Might You and I Have In Common With
Ivan Tsarevich and Younger Arnold?
This story starts in real time in Baltimore City, leaps back
into the antique era of a genuine Russian folktale,
all the while having fun with the questions in the subtitle.
(Not suitable for children younger than 17.)
Works best with audiences of at least 10 persons,
but not much larger than 25, and in a space
not requiring a live microphone.
Consider hosting this 40-minute program in your parlor
for friends, neighbors, or arranging for an organization to feature this as a special event or as part of a special day.
Questions via e-mail welcome.
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Summer-Autumn, 2011.
Unbelievably, this normally Bolshevik-bashing
Baltimore-based storyteller does. Indeed.
He was there in Gorbachev’s last 18 months.
And, in observance of
the 20th Anniversary of the Soviet Collapse (1991),
he’s ready to reprise——
1.
DNO : GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF IT
AN ODDLY FUNNY story—it takes you, in the course of the narrative, to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv (Kiev), to Soviet Moscow, and includes, as well, a few moments in
Old Japan—all on the eve of the demise of the USSR.
2.
UNDERCOVER : THE LAST JEW IN BUKHARA
CENTRAL ASIA’s ancient cities—through the ages—have powerfully drawn to their bosoms men from Europe, Britain and North America. And this storyteller as well. In the manner of those who preceded him to Bukhara, this storyteller has his own 25-minute saga to publish—orally.
WHO MISSES THE USSR?
Unbelievably, this normally Bolshevik-bashing
Baltimore-based storyteller does. Indeed.
He was there in Gorbachev’s last 18 months.
And, in observance of
the 20th Anniversary of the Soviet Collapse (1991),
he’s ready to reprise——
1.
DNO : GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF IT
AN ODDLY FUNNY story—it takes you, in the course of the narrative, to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv (Kiev), to Soviet Moscow, and includes, as well, a few moments in
Old Japan—all on the eve of the demise of the USSR.
2.
UNDERCOVER : THE LAST JEW IN BUKHARA
CENTRAL ASIA’s ancient cities—through the ages—have powerfully drawn to their bosoms men from Europe, Britain and North America. And this storyteller as well. In the manner of those who preceded him to Bukhara, this storyteller has his own 25-minute saga to publish—orally.