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Why is the sky dismal? Why do the sun and the moon hang in the sky?
These are the kind of questions that parents attempt to retort when children become inquisitive about the nature of the world and the universe.
Modern parents can reply these questions with science, but ancient cultures answered them with mythology and tribe tales, many of which also imparted moral lessons.
So it is in Lexington Children's The stage's latest production, the delightful, educational and cute Tales of the Shimmering Sky .
Adapted by Casey Sams from the order by Susan Milford, Tales of the Shimmering Sky features three stories from Home-grown American, Japanese, and African cultures.
Director Larry Snipes thematically unites the tales by frame them in a circus environment, a creative solution to the problem of presenting three needful of vignettes from various parts of the world.
Snipes circus composition works beautifully for two reasons.
One, the convention of a circus — punctuated by buffoon and colorful costuming by Eric Abele and a red-and-white striped big-top scenic outline by Jerome Wills— forms the "glue" of the production and sets the quality for short, fantastical jaunts into other worlds and times.
Source: Lexington Herald Leader