The celebrated satirist Éric Chevillard published Choir, an attack on Christianity, in which the miserable inhabitants of a filthy island create the tale of a messiah, the only one of their insular kind ever to have escaped, in the hope that he will one day come back for them.
But the rough-and-ready feel of the orchestrations will support the rough magic of the storytelling, and the audience will delight in being able to watch this ensemble of performers create the tale of the Meisners before their very eyes.
This media paradigm created the tale of a divided America – "red" v "blue"– in which the 42% of Kansans who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 are meaningless.
Backed by Mr. Sanders' estate, the writer, Vincent Lardo, created the tale, although Mr. Sanders got the credit from the grave with his name appearing in large letters at the top of the cover.
The result was "Me and Billy Bob" (2003), a video in which Ms. Mcdonald creates the tale of a doomed love affair by digitally inserting herself into clips from his films.
Meanwhile, Justin Fletcher - aka Mr Tumble from CBeebies - has created The Tale of Mr Tumble, which, like Tree of Codes, will be staged at the Manchester Opera House.
Actors are used to re-create the tale of Shriver, a Michigan native who studied Mandarin in Shanghai in 2002-03 and was later approached by a woman, who went by the name of Amanda, who asked him to write some academic papers and paid him $120.
Cruikshank's images perfectly complemented Ainsworth's tale Thackeray wrote that "...Mr Cruickshank really created the tale, and that Mr Ainsworth, as it were, only put words to it".
Few scholars believe the Grimms were actually responsible for creating the tales, but academics probably didn't realize how old many of these stories really are.
The authors, Amir (an Iranian exile) and Khalil, who remain anonymous for political reasons, draw on scores of real-life stories to create the composite tale of the Alavi family, whose 19-year-old son, a soccer fanatic named Mehdi, disappears in the thick of the protests.
The fascination endures: Next year, Krzysztof Pastor will choreograph a full-length "Tempest" for the Dutch National Ballet, and Mr. Wheeldon will create "The Winter's Tale" for the Royal Ballet.
