12-May-2017

Deccan Chronicle | Panchatantra tales and when the monkey learned its lesson

Three stories will be retold with this adaptation: The Blue Jackal, The Monkey and the Crocodile and The Monkey and the Wedge.

Some classics may be timeless but they need to be revised in keeping with changing times. Panchatantra Retold, a more contemporary adaptation of the vintage tales brings exactly that to the stage, says director Rebecca Spurgeon. “There is beauty and a certain charm that defies the clock when it comes to classics like these but the morals are very vague. For children of today, that isn’t enough.”

 

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