![]() ![]() and hath been the Subject of a Song, by a Member of Ye Hunt, which, as it would. It will feature storytelling, puppetry, original live music and The Fabularium’s bespoke animal headpieces.įree arts and crafts activity to enjoy before the showĮxplore the art of mediumship from spiritualist Nikki Kitt. I have been asked to write why I wrote this poem of Reynard the Fox. Today, we meet his father, get an origin story, and see him trying to make things right in a society run by predators.or. I found a much older, much more nuanced version of the foxs stories. ![]() ![]() Reynard the Fox, is a piece of engaging outdoor theatre for family audiences of all ages, using The Fabularium’s unique aesthetic, strong imagery and all performed upon their traditional wooden cart. A reboot, of sorts, of Reynard the Fox, everyones favorite brutal, amoral trickster with two completely new stories. Will the gift of his silver tongue be a shade too bright against his roguish red fur to save his own tail? Reynard must do everything he can to prove his innocence and avoid certain death, as well as maintaining his devious persona. Bold Reynard A good many gentlemen take great delight In hunting bold Reynard, the fox For the very best food he does eat in the night And lives upon fat geese and ducks In ash-pit or copse I did lie And I lived an extraord'nary rate In picking the bones of young lambs Till the farmers they all me did hate All for my lord's horses and hounds. Reynard the Fox (2) On the first day of spring in the year ninety-three There was great recreation was in this country There was gentlemen and farmers over hills and dales and rocks They rode so joyfuly in search of a fox. But when the Woodland Court announces the theft of the King’s Crown Jewels the animal kingdom immediately blame the fox. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. The tale of Reynard the Fox follows the woodlands most infamous scoundrel who prides himself on being the trickster of the forest. Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders - is in trouble. ![]()
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