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'Hamelin' reworks the legend of the Pied Piper
By KATIE HUGHES McKEE
Posted: 04/08/2010 01:30:26 AM PDT
Imagine Edward Scissorhands meets Pinnochio meets the Pied Piper. That's what awaited the audience on opening night of "What Happened in Hamelin," a production of Red Egg Theater on Easter weekend.
Local author/director Gina Marie Hayes took her inspiration for this play from a podcast of "Stuff You Missed in History Class," in which the legend of the Pied Piper was explored -- his motley or "pied"
appearance, usually attributed to his clothing but which, to some modern researchers, suggests a mottled complexion or a large birthmark. Also discussed were the dark, disturbing undertones of
the myth, particularly surrounding the fate of the children at the end. In one version, the children are found safely living in Transylvania and don't want to come home; in another, their parents enter the
cave and find nothing but bones in the dust. In still another ending the parents find nothing at all. (Read more...)
