The new adaptation retains Mr. Armstrong's folk-fable approach, which identifies the characters by their roles -- Father, Mother, Boy, Teacher.
Take away the religious framing, stop calling it worship, and you immediately impoverish the experience, reducing the content to a sort of EU morality or Aesop's Fables approach to spiritual development.
'AESOP'S FOIBLES' (Saturday and Sunday) As the title indicates, this new musical by Aaron Michael Zook takes a somewhat irreverent approach to Aesop's fables.
It's an approach that can work in fables, but in Wilson's highly particular world the lack of concrete experience makes some stories feel unfinished.
WHEN the six blind men of Indostan approached the elephant of the Hindu fable, their perceptions were colored by where they stood.
In Argentinian Liliana Bodoc's slow, meditative and beautifully written fable, set in ancient South America, a storm is approaching after centuries of peace.
And that is because, instead of the top-down approach of a game like Populous or Black & White, Fable II spins its magic from the beginning of life upward.
His new feature, set in the Mali capital Bamako, has the same quietist approach to movie-making, with the same dreamy sense of fable, but there is a distinctly more discursive tone.
LAUREL GRAEBER 'AESOP'S FOIBLES' (Saturday and Sunday) As the title indicates, this new musical by Aaron Michael Zook takes a somewhat irreverent approach to the ancient tales known as Aesop's fables.
The story is equally fable-like, the subject (love) is the same yet very different and the approach, regarding the playing of roles in real life, is also similar.
Instead of sending the bullies to the principal's office, Currie took a different approach: He read his class King & King, a children's fable by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland that features a same-sex romance.
