The novel's conceit is that this story was published in 1898 by Marguerite's son, Thomas, based on his mother's tales.
In 2003, his show Tocororo: A Cuban Tale, based on his childhood, broke box office records.
In late 1890 at a friend's house on Lake George in upstate New York, while recovering from a near-fatal case of jungle fever contracted in Honduras, Savage wrote a tale loosely based on his life, entitled My Official Wife.
The UK's most famous Cuban dancer is Carlos Acosta, darling of the Royal Ballet, who created a show based on his own life, Tocororo - A Cuban Tale, which has played two seasons at London's Sadler's Wells.
Mr. Das, playing tabla (Indian drums), led a battery of percussionists in his "Shristi" (2006), based on a tale of creation involving Shiva and his drum.
Is this one based on a classic tale?
The Nun's Priest's Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale" is based on the medieval tale of Reynard the Fox, common to French, Flemish, and German literature.
The story inspired many – including Robert Louis Stevenson, whose novel Kidnapped is based on the tale.
My only condition was that the presentation was to be based on a tale they had heard, not read.
The Aix festival premiered the composer George Benjamin's "Written on Skin" last summer, a work based on the tale of the troubadour Guillaume de Cabestanh.
