Oscar Wilde's

WILDE TALES

December 7 - 31, 2016

A selfish giant builds a wall around his beautiful garden to prevent the local children from playing in it. When the wall is finished the garden falls into perpetual winter, and doesn't awake until a young boy finds his way in through a hole in the wall.

Quintessence will continue to establish a tradition of holiday classics for the entire family as Jeremy Bloom makes his Quintessence debut and adapts Oscar Wilde’s mystical tales for children, including "The Happy Prince," "The Selfish Giant," "The Remarkable Rocket," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Rose and the Nightingale" into WILDE TALES.

Oscar Wilde's soaring prose, original songs by David Cope and puppetry by Martina Plag, WILDE TALES celebrates the values of selflessness, charity, compassion and love in soul stirring, wondrous and timely tales for the entire family.

REVIEWS

"Wilde Tales is a holiday treat for young people of all ages!"
- TheaterArts

"Cleverly adapted from Oscar Wilde's fairy tales by Jeremy Bloom, who also directs, this stylish Quintessence production has whimsical grace notes... in a surreal world where nature and human nature intersect in magical ways."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The experience of the play is like watching an illustrated storybook."
- Phindie