Adapted by Tsutomu Mizukami from his 1972 children's book, "Boonah, the Tree-Climbing Frog," and presented by the Seinenza Theater Company, a Japanese troupe, the play concerns a spirited young frog who wants to see the world from a treetop.
A young leopard frog confronts a drying stream bed during a drought in the lower central plains of Missouri.
One of a pair of young frogs addressing a large elder frog asks, "Tell us again about Monet, Grandpa".
The new work involved very young frog embryos, so it's unclear how it might be applied to adult humans in need of eye repair, cautions Michael Zuber, a developmental biologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse in New York.
Despite what his father tells him, young frog doesn't believe there's anything good about being green until... well, you'll have to read it to find out.
Even if it takes two dancing black-and-white Muppet Marleys, a passel of quill-wielding rats as Scrooge's office clerks and a collection of young frogs and pigs in the Cratchit household, this "Christmas Carol" makes a clear case for kindness and successfully warms the heart.
Dust daily for young frogs and 3x a week (roughly) for adults.
Nothing is missing: the young frogs are damp and innocent, the geezer frog plump and a bit tired, and the water and lily pads Impressionist.
The young frogs scream, and are silenced.
