BEYOND THE HIGH VALLEY - A QUECHUA STORY

The Mettawee River Theater Company continues its tradition of presenting a performance on the Close during the days that bridge summer and fall. This year, the Company will enact a tale from Native South American Quechua culture, Beyond the High Valley.

The Quechua people are descendants of the Incas, living in villages located in the Andean highlands of Peru. Beyond the High Valley is drawn from the Quechua’s rich tradition of storytelling. The tale begins in a meadow, where a giant condor spies a young woman tending her family's llamas. Swooping down from the sky, the condor transforms himself into a dashing lover, carrying off the young woman to a rocky crag. Her unlikely rescuer is a creature of dazzling ingenuity, a plucky little hummingbird. Mettawee’s production of Beyond the High Valley incorporates a range of puppets and other works of art realized on many different scales, expressing the vast distances, radiant sky, and rugged, vertical thrust of this fierce and beautiful terrain.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 11, 12, 13, and 18, 19, 20 at 7:30 pm on the Close
Tickets sold only at performances: $10, children and seniors: $5