That's the prospect Anansi the Spider, the trickster character from West African folklore, confronts in this production, presented by Circle in the Square Theater School and recommended for children in kindergarten through sixth grade.
More recently Otto Rank, a Freudian Austrian psychoanalyst, in his book "The Double" [ 36], suggested a possible explanation for the frequent recurrence of the image of the double in the artistic production and folklore.
Popular folklore has it that Terry Gilliam's movie productions are jinxed.
The Persian Rite of Spring, which had its world premiere at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2010 as a live production, dramatizes the mythology, poetry, folklore and celebrations of Nowruz (from Yalda thru 13-Bedar, in other words, from Winter Solstice to early April) through powerful storytelling.
Beginning in Germany during the early 1900s, the Wandervogel literally, wandering birds rejected the onset of the materialist, consumerist, mass-production society in favor of researching folklore and tramping around the countryside.
As much as any Wagner-soundtracked helicopter onslaught or aromatically themed dialogue snippet, it is the film's legendarily hellish production that cemented its place in Hollywood folklore.
Mertz's works put a new spin on yokai, supernatural beings from Japanese folklore who were popularized in the 18th century through the mass production of Toriyama Sekien's illustrated texts.
Mertz's works put a new spin on yokai, supernatural beings from Japanese folklore who were popularized in the 18th century through the mass production of Toriyama Sekien's illustrated texts.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (2006) writes that Fear of a Black Planet introduced a production style that "borrow[ed] elements from jazz, especially that of John Coltrane, to craft a soundscape that was more challenging than that of their previous two albums, but still complemented the complex social commentary".
The play, which drew on Jewish mystical folklore, was widely translated and performed, most notably in the celebrated Moscow production of the Hebrew company Habima.
On the stage, a similar, traditional sense of an ancient, oral voice sounds in the libretto or plot: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Bartók and Balász's Bluebeard's Castle, Dvořák's mermaid opera Rusalka, or a Ballets Russes production such as The Firebird, proclaim their roots in unauthored folklore, although they are in themselves unique and original works.
