with a desire for something that's beyond his reach. And then through different circumstances, he does the thing that is beyond his reach and things take an abrupt change around him. As mentioned, you've done shows involving folktales from South Africa, and this is based on a Mexican Folktale. What's the appeal of folktales from other cultures, and what are you saying about our culture using these stories, if anything at all? Cathy : Yeah well, this folktale is kind of a universal folktale, there are probably similar versions in Europe and also anywhere else in Latin America. The peasant family that Juan is a part of is probably quite typical of other parts of Central America where Zompopo's from. Zompopo has also worked on coffee plantations. Zompopo : We also found that there are many common things in every culture and we've found how interesting it is for us to work on stories from different cultures. We have worked on stories from Guatemala, from Africa, from Chile, and in some sense all the cultures are universal. We always meet in someplace where we feel we could identify with some particular part. For example, in the story of Juan, one of the things I think that happens to everybody is to dream. We all have dreams... In some sense we learn from other cultures, how similar all the cultures are. Cathy : And one of the universal themes of this story is that it's about a person who has a