A clever group of trained animals have a bootlegging trio of humans to thwart this time. The animals are driven to desperation for lack of food and after a grotesque mass meeting of monkeys, lions, owls, goats, dogs, parrots, mice, etc.
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A Menagerie of Motives Snooky's Covered Wagon thrusts the viewer into a tableau where the line between beast and bandit blurs with delightful abandon. The opening tableau—a mass meeting of assorted fauna presided over by a lion of unmistakable majesty—functions as both literal council and allegorical microcosm of ...


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" A Menagerie of Motives Snooky's Covered Wagon thrusts the viewer into a tableau where the line between beast and bandit blurs with delightful abandon. The opening tableau—a mass meeting of assorted fauna presided over by a lion of unmistakable majesty—functions as both literal council and allegorical microcosm of a society teetering on the brink of starvation. Each species brings a distinct tonal flavor: the monkeys' jittery chatter, the owls' solemn hoots, the goats' plaintive bleats, and ..."

