The Perfect Woman and other stories
Royal University of fine arts
September Tuesday 15, 7 pm, Chenla Theater
An Pagna, a professor of theater at the Royal University of Fine Arts, offers an original adaptation of a series of traditional Cambodian tales: "The Perfect Woman" "The Girl with the Golden Peacock"and "Seven Generations of the Deaf."
- The Perfect Woman: A lazy peasant goes to look for wood in the forest to build a plow. But his defect gets the better of him. He falls asleep and comes back empty-handed at nightfall. Seeing that a human being wants to cut down trees, the forest spirits, annoyed, decide to kill him. And who will stop them....?
-The Girl with the Golden Peacock: Meanup, decides one day to mount a ploy to test his four spouses: he borrows the royal peacock and let his spouses believe that he will cook a delicious meal with the bird. The king is aware of the disappearance of the peacock and try to find him .