The Baron Would Be Proud A Storyteller's Story

Mike Jack Stoumbos, a young Seattle playwright, brings you his debut narrative in the form of this fanciful folk tale which demonstrates the triumph of love against even the most daunting whimsy. With its cast of charming characters, historical anecdotes, literary allusions, and a fresh farce with each new day, The Baron Would Be Proud is certainly a story for storytellers everywhere. * * *A mock folk tale, set in early 19th century England, "The Baron Would Be Proud" tells the story of the tiny village of Adleship Isle, which--nestled in a mountain pass along the Scottish border--is almost entirely unreachable. No one can figure out how to get into or out of the town, save for a veteran traveling merchant who has assumed the sacred duty of vacationing in this town once every year around Christmas.Now, as fate would have it, another man, also traveling around the world, gets lost in a storm and stumbles blindly into the town. As both the novice and the veteran and English gentlemen and well-to-do traveling merchants, their being snowed in for the winter creates a 'this town ain't big enough for the two of us' dynamic.However, the narrator will tell you that's not what the story is about; rather it is about the young man named Julian who lives in the town and who has grown quite smitten with the daughter of the mayor. In order to gain her attention, Julian boldly offers to put up the stranger and his servants for the winter weeks, and this stranger--a cheeky fellow who goes by the name of the Baron Pan Bordolo--decides that the only apt way to repay the lad is to help him win his lady.