| − | During Act 1, the play tells the story of a Baker, and his wife, who want desperately to have a child, but have been unable to conceive because of a curse placed on the Baker's family by a neighboring witch, when he was a toddler, for his father's transgression of stealing from her garden to feed his pregnant wife. The witch took the baby, [[Rapunzel]] as retribution, and keeps her locked in a high tower, doting on her and protecting her from the evils and lax morals of the outside world. | + | During Act 1, the play tells the story of a Baker, and his wife, who want desperately to have a child, but have been unable to conceive because of a curse placed on the Baker's family by a neighboring witch, when he was a toddler, for his father's transgression of stealing from her garden to feed his pregnant wife. In response to his actions the witch took the baby, [[Rapunzel]], and keeps her locked in a high tower, doting on her and protecting her from the evils and lax morals of the outside world. |
| | In order to have a child, the Baker is charged to find four items before midnight in three days. He is to find: the cow as white as milk, the slipper as pure as gold, the cape as red as blood and the hair as yellow as corn. This leads him, and his wife who vows to help him as she is equally invested in having a child, to encounters with the characters from Grimm's Fairy Tales. | | In order to have a child, the Baker is charged to find four items before midnight in three days. He is to find: the cow as white as milk, the slipper as pure as gold, the cape as red as blood and the hair as yellow as corn. This leads him, and his wife who vows to help him as she is equally invested in having a child, to encounters with the characters from Grimm's Fairy Tales. |