“Once upon a time in a very small village there lived an old
woman who made the most delicious coconut cakes. People
would come from all around just to buy her cakes at the village
market. One day, while walking to market, the old lady tripped
on a stone and her sack fell to the ground, spilling the cakes all
over the ground. “Oh my, look at all the trouble I’ve got here,”
she said. “I can’t believe what trouble I’ve got. Now I’ll have
to go right back home!”
Monkey, sitting in a tree above the road, had been watching
the woman and had heard everything. He was very curious
about her trouble, and when she left, he scurried down the
tree and went to investigate the trouble scattered across the
road..."
The light-hearted tale from Trinidad, “How Monkey Looked for
Trouble” depicts a cheeky monkey with a limited vocabulary
and a soft spot for coconut cakes.
The music, by Austrian/Korean composer Erika Chun is virtuosic
and playful in nature and is perfectly complemented by
cartoonist Kyle Alkema’s colorful cartoon art. |
