ii-troupe — the Folklore Troupe

The cast: . The four-legged folk rest on all fours; stand them up, make them dance, sit them back down — on the floor, a chair, a zabuton or a tatami mat, or up on a table. Drag a figure anywhere and it flops; tap to hear its name — the chip below shows it in English, romaji, kana and kanji — click any of those chips to write every label that way. The stage starts in kanji and the script row above switches the lot, chrome included; you hear the Japanese, and the scene becomes where that character lives: the tengu's forest, the kappa's river. Objects stack on the shelf at the left: drag one out and drop it ON somebody — mouth to feed them (the belly fills and grows), head to head it, hand to punch it, foot to kick it. The kappa goes for cucumber. Rack the pins and bowl a ball down the alley at them.