Frogs

Peripatetic Illustrations

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Hi friends!

Today we’re bringing you some treats from our resident illustrator, Mr. Meekins’ very good friend, Sam Bertken. Sam has been making illustrations for our shows since the very first one, O Best Beloved, before the Peripatetic Players even knew how to peripatet.

For O Best Beloved (2013), Sam drew each of the animals who starred in the stories:

The Camel
The Camel
The Elephant's Child
The Elephant’s Child
Old Man Kangaroo being chased by Wild Dog Dingo
Old Man Kangaroo being chased by Wild Dog Dingo
The Rhino
The Rhino

Aesop Amuck (2015) also featured some animal stars:

Town Mouse & Country Mouse
Town Mouse & Country Mouse
The Ill-Fated Mouse Council
The Ill-Fated Mouse Council
Frog Party
Frog Party
The Tortoise
The Tortoise
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Beat Poet Crow
Beat Poet Crow
The Hare
The Hare
The Lion
The Lion

 

And this year, he’s drawn the pirate Players mid-adventure aboard their ship! Click the image to download a coloring page of your very own!

Print

…here’s how we colored it in for our poster!

Pirate Poster Illustration RGB

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Character Profile: Frogs!!!

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Illustration by Sam Bertken

How did this frog get so big? Through her own folly, I’m afraid…

She’s from The Frogs and the Ox, and she’s trying to make herself as big as an ox. It doesn’t turn out well.

In fact, the frogs always seem to be coming up with bad ideas… Like, for instance, in The Frogs Who Wished for a King or The Frog and the Mouse. Unlike the mice, who come up with bad ideas after a lot of thought and deliberation in their mouse councils, the frogs just don’t seem to think things through. Naturally, this leads to plenty of mishaps for the frogs.

The frogs are also scared of everything, perhaps with good reason considering all the misfortune that befalls them. They run for their lives in The Hares and the Frogs and The Boys and the Frogs.

What with all that running in fear and being prone to mishaps, we see some great opportunities for slapstick. That might be why the Frog sections of Aesop Amuck are some of the most hilarious to rehearse.

Here’s a little taste of our rehearsal shenanigans…