BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The young performers were funny, the audience giggled and clapped, and the message at a children's theatre festival in Iraq's National Theatre was as serious as it was entertaining.
"I am fast! I am fast! Ha ha!" taunted 11-year-old Abathir Fadhil, bouncing around the stage in a furry bunny suit in the classic story of the tortoise and the hare.
