Clumsy Aunt Tigress
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Clumsy Aunt Tigress is adapted from the Taiwanese folk tale 「Grandaunt Tiger.」 The play uses the form of string marionettes to embody concepts of modern children's theater. Humorous dialogues, funny characters, amusing plots, a brand new stage, stage setting, props, music and new puppets all contrib...Read more
Clumsy Aunt Tigress is adapted from the Taiwanese folk tale 「Grandaunt Tiger.」 The play uses the form of string marionettes to embody concepts of modern children's theater. Humorous dialogues, funny characters, amusing plots, a brand new stage, stage setting, props, music and new puppets all contribute to creating a joyous atmosphere of children's theater.
In the story of Clumsy Aunt Tigress, each Aunt Tigress has a mission to accomplish on the day she comes of age. She has to capture a child and eat its finger to be a legitimate Aunt Tigress. A young tigress grew up with the full support of her Aunt Tigress, who hoped that the young tigress would someday inherit the title of Aunt Tigress. However, the little tigress turned out to be a vegetarian. She liked having many friends to play with. One day, a sister and brother came to Dark Forest to play where they happened to fall into the trap of Aunt Tigress and little tigress…..
| Category | Traditional Puppetry |
| Type | String Puppetry |
| Chinese Title | 不及格的虎姑婆 |
| Group | Chin Fei Feng Marionette Theatre Troupe |
| Creative staff | Chin Fei Feng Marionette Theatre Troupe |
| Subtitle | Mandarin Chinese |
| Premiere | 2010-10-24 |
| Venue | Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts,Kaohsiung |
| Duration | 50min |
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| Other Works | Peach Blossom Fairy Fighting Daoist Zhou Celebrating the Arrival of Spring on the Lantern Festival |
