The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

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Jack has a problem. He’s successfully grown an enormous beanstalk, scaled
to the top, and stolen a golden harp and gold-laying goose from the sleeping giant.
However, the giant has now awoken and Jack has scurried back down the beanstalk
in the hopes of chopping it down before the giant can catch him. Jack could
possibly even make a clean escape if only the Little Red Hen would quit harping on
and on about all the lazy animals who refuse to help her with her wheat.

As the hungry giant catches up to Jack, Jack is forced to find ways to divert
the giant’s attention in order to avoid becoming an afternoon snack. When he is
unable to find a suitable hiding place, Jack convinces the giant that a good story or
two would be the perfect way to begin a meal.

And so it happens that Jack begins telling his own versions of some very
familiar stories. With each tale the giant becomes more and more dissatisfied, and
Jack becomes more and more determined to make it up to the giant by spinning a
new yarn.

The giant (and the audience as well) is treated to some new treatments of
some old favorites, such as a tortoise racing a hair-growing hare,
Cinderumplestiltskin, Little Red Running Shorts, and a couple of princesses who
kiss frogs and sleep on peas. Jack must not only tell tales as fast as he can for as
long as he can to avoid being eaten, but he must also overcome the disturbances
caused by that pesky, bread-obsessed Red Hen and a very smelly hero made of
Cheese.

The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales, both as a book and stage
play, shares with its audience the joys