The King Has Goat Ears
Jovanovic, Katarina / Béha, Phillippe
Jovanovic's debut adapts a Serbian variant of a King Midas story, placing the emphasis on acceptance. Because of his self-consciousness about his unusual goat-ears, shut-in King Boyan engages a new barber for each haircut, imprisoning the previous ones. Apprentice Igor volunteers to barber the King and - apparently unlike his predecessors - seems unperturbed by those ears. Allowed to come and go between village and palace, Igor shouts his secr...