The Children's Theatre Company

InterFaith Children’s Theatre Company
Washington, D.C.

STONE SOUP
Running 1/24/09 - 2/1/09

Tickets, Reservations and Audition info:
Robert McLaughlin 301 529 1650
rtmclaughlin@comcast.net

STONE SOUP
Written by: Mehr Mansuri
Music & Lyrics by: Frank Sanchez & Mehr Mansuri

Once upon a time, somewhere in post-war Eastern Europe, there was a great famine in which people jealously hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from their friends and neighbors. One day a wandering group of gypsies came marching down the road towards the village asking to stay for the night. The townspeople seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for gypsies are often hungry. So all the food washidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits, with the gypsies equal to the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones...but, of course, one must add a carrot or cabbage...some meat and so it went. The very next day, the gypsies continued their journey, leaving the little town and its people behind. But the villagers never forgot them, NOR the lesson they had learned.In fact, during the hardest of times, in such a time as this tale, that little village thrived, because the townsfolk never forgot how to make "stone soup"

CTC InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

Director:
Robert McLaughlin	301-529-1650	rtmclaughlin@comcast.net

Executive Artistic Director:
Mehr Mansuri