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“Making wonderful use of puppets, costumes and music onstage, Theatre Motus beautifully creates a mythic world where a single kid has all the power, and the village's adults can only guide him to use it wisely. "—Stephen Hunt, Calgary Herald

In West Africa, where a drought has brought hardship for many years, an ancient baobab tree stands watch. One day, the ancient tree brings forth an egg, and from this egg a little boy is born. The people in the village discover that he is the only one who can free the water buried in the heart of the ancient baobab. The brave young boy goes on a quest filled with challenges and excitement.

This show features incredible live music on traditional African instruments including the kora (an instrument similar to the lute), balophone (akin to a xylophone), and mbira (or “thumb piano”) along with ingenious puppetry and mask work and was inspired by the West African griot tradition of musically accompanied oral storytelling.

Théâtre Motus, based in Quebec, Canada, specializes in works for young audiences that meld music, puppeteering, and traditional theater techniques into unique performance experiences.

Areas of Curriculum Connection: Music and Visual Arts, Geography, Social Studies, Humanities, Language Arts/English.