THE LONG NOSETHE LONG NOSEby Wilhelm Hauffby Wilhelm Hauff

““AWHHE”AWHHE”““Armenian Women for Health & Healthy Environment”Armenian Women for Health & Healthy Environment”

““Towards Toxic Free Future” projectTowards Toxic Free Future” project

The author of the scenario and director

of the play Lusine Babayan discusses the script with one of her

colleagues

! INNOVATION !Aim: to send a challenge to the society, and

through an attractive, merry theatrical form to create a vivid interest to serious ecological issues

The theatrical curtain is a very important part of the decoration

The children of the Center For Harmonious Development “Tsil Busats” hold a rehearsal at the

studio

The future witch dances a passionate tango

The students grow into their roles

The play is originally prepared for showing in the country. Our performances at local

schools were a success.

Our actors got presents from AWHHE. Trips to distant villages were real adventures for them

In the fairy tale exists straight line a relationship between products of the feeding, such as fruit,

vegetables and herbs, and health of the person

The lady, Hanna, is always selling vegetables on the market with her son beside her.

The witch Craterweiss comes to the market only every seven years

The vegetables have come to punish Jacob. He is one of their usual victims.

We have chosen humor as the main weapon to solve the problem. Our play is full of jokes, music and surprises.

The witch serves Jacob a magic soup

Jacob is at a lossThe fruit and vegetables put their

plan into operation

Jacob does not know that seven years have gone by and that the witch has turned him into a dwarf with a very long nose. When he

comes to his mother, she throws him out.

Poor Hanna misses her son very much

Jacob buys a goose and discovers it is speaking

Not knowing what to do Long Nose remembers his cooking lessons and

applies as a cook to the duke of that land who loves delicacies as much

as the witch. He is tried and when he succeeds in making a fine dish, hired.

She is the daughter of a sorcerer who was cursed by a rival of her father. Long nose and Mimmi, the goose, become best friends. She helps him to prepare a famous pate, called “souzeren”.

Hanna is so pleased that she is ready to give her fruit and vegetables

away as gifts

And, of course, happy end…