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<pstyle:2 – Body Text>A group of amateur puppeteers will stage three puppet plays in the Wairewa Hall at the end of November.
Puppetry is associated with children, and certainly the first of the three plays, A Flood in the Valley, is for children.
It is set in Wairewa, gets a little bit scary, but ends happily ever after.
The second play, Aesop’s Fables, is an illustration of four morals which were first (probably) told 500 BCE by Aesop, a slave in Ancient Greece.
They were stories told in the oral tradition of entertainment, long before printing.
The number of them has almost certainly grown over the centuries as there are about 725 of them today.
The four depicted in Wairewa on this occasion have a certain pithy moral to them, which will be appreciated by adults as well as children, maybe even more so.
The third and last play is a puppet’s view of the classical Christmas Nativity story, complete with shepherds and wiseman, angels and camels, a manger and a star.
It is quite possibly a story unknown to many children these days, but will ring a bell with most adults over 30.
The puppet theatre is quite spectacular, built locally, in red and black velvet, with gold curtains and lit by a travelling spotlight.
The puppets for the last two plays are original, made by the puppeteers, and the 15 backdrops, which change for every scene, are works of art in their own right.
The show will be held on Saturday, November 30 at the Wairewa Hall and is free.
It will start at 7pm.
See the public notices in the classified advertisements for further details.
