A Story Of Chelm
Linda Gaye Shapiro
A Tale of Chelm
by Arnold Perl
Synopsis
THE STORY: A TALE OF CHELM is based on folk tales of a village in Eastern Europe, which village was cheated of its rightful quota of intelligence—the angel charged with distributing souls spilled her bag of foolish souls as she flew over Chelm and one of the results was a Melamed—a teacher—who couldn't tell the difference between a nanny goat and a billy goat.
The play tells of his constantly frustrated attempts to buy a milch goat for his wife.
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"A time for rejoicing. The literary material is humane, wise and delightful. It evokes humor, sentiment and compassion out of simple material. A lot of skill in theater and native understanding of people has transmuted simple things into humor, pathos, wisdom and beauty…something wholly delightful."
— The New York Times
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A Tale of Chelm is a comedy play written by Arnold Perl and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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