The Name of the Tree

The little shadow puppets are dancing

from little red theatre
An African Bantu tale about very hungry animals & fruit that is much too high to reach.
In order to get the fruit the animals must learn its name & the Great Lion Queen is the only one who knows it!
For booking or playdates, visit www.littleredtheatre.on.ca

	from little red theatre An African Bantu tale about very hungry animals & fruit that is much too high to reach. In order to get the fruit the animals must learn its name & the Great Lion Queen is the only one who knows it! For booking or playdates, visit www.littleredtheatre.on.ca

Jason designed the set, which involved a 16 foot wide shadowpuppet screen, a pair of bamboo/palm trees,
and a mechanical fruit tree which had to grow and shrink onstage!

WATCH A SCENE

The Name of the Tree: Final Scene | MPG | 22MB |2mins14sec.

In this scene, Kate Ann Vandermeer is playing the Giraffe,
Leslie Takeda is playing the Turtle
and Sedina Fiati is playing the Zebra.

The stunningly realistic animal masks were designed by
Pamela Schuller, whose website is stonemasque.com.

And that very wonderful song "Ungali" was written by Kirk Elliott.

THEATRE ELEMENTS & WALLPAPERS

Righthand closeup of painting
WALLPAPER ( 1760x1320 pix ) animal painting
CLICK HERE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION WALLPAPER (1504x676 pixels) Righthand side of painting
WALLPAPER ( 1760x1200 pix )
or ( 1024x768 pix )

shadow screen in half circle
THE SHADOW PUPPET SCREEN
CLICK HERE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION WALLPAPER (1397x1520 pixels) woodgrain detail
PAINTED WOODGRAIN

STATIONARY TREES Closeup of moving transport
The Mechanical Tree: Skeleton.
The fabric tree-trunk and the fabric leaf-canopy is attached to the "transport" which is pulled by the actors using the rope.

LOOKING UP AT TREES

After playing several dates at the Palmerston Theatre, this production is now on tour throughout Ontario during the next few months.