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A slackwirewalker travels around the world and performs wherever she is invited to do so. She starts to set up her wire but interrupts herself continously as she must tell the audience the stories she heard on the road. While she sets up the wire the odds and ends become a washhouse, a cellar, a cottage, fire even... Slackwire walking becomes secondary. The stories come to the foreground.
In India there is a tradition, which says that on a certain day of the year you must tell the story of the Sun God, bringing luck to the person that hears it. It sometimes happens that you can't find a listener, somebody who will listen to your story, and your search is in vain. But finally you meet a pregnant woman who is prepared to listen. She is tired after toiling the whole day and falls asleep right at the beginning of the story. But the tiny person in her womb listens and will be born a lucky person.
Like the Indian story teller, the slackwire walker needs to tell her stories. They are old tales that have occured at all times.
Tales have always fascinated Masha. She shares this passion with her grandmother (on her father's side), who has transmitted to her a rich treasure of old stories.
She often finds refuge in the magic of tales and finds herself coming up with certain stories at certain moments.
The play can be performed in
English, French, Italian,
German, Swiss German and Spanish.
Duration: 80 minutes, no intermission
First Performance: 21 august 2002
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