Take Care of My Cabbage
A Louisiana Folktale
Adapted and Retold by Dianne de Las Casas
| Storyteller 1: | Monsieur Fermier said to T-Boy, “Take care of my cabbage!” |
| Chorus: | My cabbage won’t grow, oh no, oh no! My cabbage won’t grow, oh no! |
| Storyteller 1: | But T-Boy said, “I am too busy.”
{ 0 comments } Friends: What a busy week it’s been. There is always so much going on! In addition to completing revisions and updates to The Story Biz Handbook: Managing Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage, I have been working on updates to my website (check out the front page). I have also been working on new story theater scripts for a residency I am doing in February. This is what my desk looks like when I am doing story research… 
Story Research Sticky notes on pages, notes in a notebook, not to mention the research on the Internet… I am working with a school in my local area doing a “Louisiana Story Fest” residency. It’s based on the story theater methods from my book, Story Fest: Crafting Story Theater Scripts. It will be so much fun working with the third, fourth, and fifth graders at this school. Each class will be performing one of my story theater scripts, all based on Louisiana folktales. The residency will culminate in peer group performances (the classes in each grade will perform for each other – a third grade class performs for the other third grade classes, etc.). Louisiana stories I worked on include: “Take Care of my Cabbage” (a cumulative story much like”The Old Woman and Her Pig”), “Elephant and Snake (a story with a Compair Lapin [Louisiana's equivalent of Brer Rabbit] cameo), “Jean Sotte” (A “Foolish John” story), “La Petite Fourmi” (“The Little Ant” – another cumulative tale like “The Mouse’s Wedding” or “The Stonecutter”), “Petit Pouce and His Dogs” (a Louisiana version of “Wiley and the Hairy Man”), and Poucette (A “Tom Thumb” tale that is reminiscent of both “Hansel and Gretel” and “Jack and the Beanstalk”). In addition, the students will also be performing “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby,” which is in Story Fest. It was so much fun working on these stories. Once I started writing, I was on a roll. I finished them all in one night! Whew! In another blog, I’ll post one of the finished tales. Now, on to the next project on my million-mile long to do list! Happy Tales to You! Warmly, Dianne { 0 comments } |
