Thistle Theatre, a puppet theatre for families presents “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Based on an old English version of the story, Jack Spriggins trades his family’s cow for five colored beans. His long-suffering mother tosses the beans and they magically grow as tall as the sky. An amazing adventure ensues when Jack climbs to the top of the beanstalk and becomes a slave to the Cyclops wife of the Fee-fi-fo-fum Giant. A golden hen, a magic singing harp, a green fairy and a fool add to the musical merriment. Bunraku puppets of all sizes tell this classic Medieval English tale. Thistle Theatre specializes in tabletop Bunraku puppets, an ancient Japanese style of puppetry. The puppeteers, dressed head-to-toe in black to suggest invisibility, manipulate the puppets from behind. The story was adapted by Sue Ennis and Jean Enticknap with music and songs by Sue Ennis. The puppets were designed and build by Brian Kooser with costumes by Jean Enticknap. Funded in part by 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax.