The Frog King

A puppet show in five acts with four different stagesets

“In olden times, when wishing still did some good, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, who, indeed, has seen so much, marveled every time it shone upon her face. In the vicinity of the king's castle, there was a large, dark forest, and in this forest, beneath an old linden tree, there was a well. In the heat of the day, the princess would go out into the forest and sit on the edge of the cool well. To pass the time she would take a golden ball, throw it into the air, and then catch it. It was her favorite plaything...”

With these words begins the story of “The Frog Prince” from the Brothers Grimm’s “Children’s and Household Tales” collection of fairy tales.