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THREE APPLES FALL

Interesting insight into a folktale of another culture with a message to not be greedy. Production values are okay, nothing fancy but clear. Costuming, sets - good. Appropriate.

Based on an Estonian fairy tale adapted by Sally McCluskey, the story follows two mysterious, magical travelers. Adepta, played by Bonnie Johnson (Patch Adams, Prince of Tides, Sleeping with the Enemy) is a wise older woman who is teaching irreverent Novichio, portrayed by Aaron Mills, how to use magic. When three apples fall from the sky, the travelers each take one and give the other to a poor family who had shared their food scraps with them. Upon giving away the apple, Adepta tells the young mother to sew some decent clothes for her children and that whatever she does in the morning she will be doing forever. She begins sewing and discovers that the meager amounts of cloth she'd saved become and endless roll. A wealthy lady who earlier had run the travelers off her property learns of her good fortune and demands they return to her house. Reluctantly, Adepta and Novichio go and endure her insincere hospitality. They leave her with the same message. Immediately, she begins to count her money but is suddenly struck with a sneezing fit that, apparently never ends.