Stone Soup
"Musical License"

Once upon a time, somewhere in post-war Eastern Europe, there was a great famine in which people jealously hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from their friends and neighbors. One day a wandering group of Romani troubadours (rudely referred to as “gypsies”) came marching down the road towards the village asking to stay for the night. The townspeople seeing them coming, suddenly pretended to be very busy, so they could avoid the troubadours- fearing their wanting food or money.

In our version of Stone Soup, a famous folk story, we show how the hardworking, creative but hungry strangers, convince the townspeople to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that feeds all and everyone enjoys. While it conveys the value and spirit of sharing, we also hope to introduce a bias against an ethnic group (the Roma) who have long suffered unfair bias, discrimination and mistreatment.

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