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Fairytales

April 2024

  • Detail from the cover of the book And They Lived … Ever After with a picture of Rapunzel and the subtitle 'Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales'.

    Rapunzel reimagined: the women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection

    And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities

December 2023

  • Santa Claus giving gifts to children by the fireside

    The real Santa’s face: ID software sorts Father Christmas from his stand-ins

    The man in red’s distinct visage emerges by algorithm, proving not any old bearded man looks like him
  • Joseph Tweedale as Peter and Liana Cottrill as Wendy.

    Wendy: A Peter Pan Story review – an awfully modern adventure

    Gaming imagery blends with traditional adventure scenery in an exuberant present-day adaptation of JM Barrie’s novel
  • Enchanted Field by Patricia Piccinini at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art. The Fairy Tales exhibition is a dreamlike experience that could leave you transformed

    From Jim Henson to Patricia Piccinini: Brisbane’s Fairy Tales exhibition is spooky, perverse and delightful

    Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art’s summer blockbuster harks back to the eldritch roots of classic folk tales – so think twice about taking the kids

November 2023

  • Cinderella is confronted by the huge wicker head of the badger goddess

    Cinderella review – festive fairytale adds a sprinkling of socialism

  • Familiar and strange … The Snow Queen.

    The Snow Queen review – bold, imaginative and richly musical

September 2023

  • Mannequins

    Rouge by Mona Awad review – a modern fairytale

    This beauty industry satire from the author of Bunny explores buried trauma, the tyranny of wellness and mother-daughter relationships

June 2023

  • Martha Gill

    Fairytales have always reflected the morals of the age. It’s not a sin to rewrite them

    Martha Gill
    Nothing is being destroyed in adding diversity and sexual equality to old stories

March 2023

  • Mayowa Ogunnaike (Gretel) in Hansel and Gretel by Vicki Igbokwe @ The Place Theatre. (Opening 15-12-18)

    Top 10s
    Top 10 retold fairytales

    The best retellings of these archetypal stories can restore a childlike wonder – and offer startling new reflections of the world we live in now

December 2022

  • Beau/Beast (Ben Boskovic) and Belle (Amiyah Goodall) in Beauty and the Beast at Watford Palace theatre.

    Beauty and the Beast review – Belle and Beau would do anything for fame

    This lacklustre reframing of the fairytale as a talent show veers into a pantomime version of Phantom of the Opera
  • A still from the 1950 Disney film Cinderella.

    Think Cinderella’s a fairytale? Fabled glass slipper is revealed as a joke on royalty

    The footwear at the heart of the age-old panto tale is a satirical jibe at fashionista king Louis XIV’s obsession with ornamental glass and impractical aristocratic styles

    • Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty review – doing the fairytale twist

    • Hex review – musical Sleeping Beauty casts a darkly dazzling spell

    • Tales of the Brothers Grimm review – sparky journey through fairytale world

November 2022

  • Barrie Hunter, Kirsty Findlay and Ewan Somers in Jack and the Beanstalk at Perth theatre.

    Jack and the Beanstalk review – the climate crisis reaches panto season

    The beanstalk in Barrie Hunter’s jolly, tightly choreographed and on-message show is actually a fossil fuel mountain, and the giant is a massive polluter
  • Geppetto (voiced by David Bradley) and Pinocchio (voiced by Gregory Mann).

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review – a superbly strange stop-motion animation

    The director of the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water has turned the timeless fable into a magical Mussolini-era parable
  • Tom Kanji and Peyvand Sadeghian in Pinocchio

    Pinocchio review – a truly bold take on Carlo Collodi’s classic

    Mosquitos, cats and smartly defined morals feature in a complex and well-crafted reimagining of the beloved tale

August 2022

  • Matter-of-fact bluntness … Jo Clifford and Maria MacDonell.

    The Not So Ugly Duckling: A Play for Grown-Ups review – learning to fly

    Maria MacDonell and Jo Clifford consider the classic Hans Christian Andersen story and don’t shy away from nature’s cruelty

January 2022

  • ‘Chapter four: Everything Goes Bonkers!’ … Jacob Butler and Sheri Lineham in Jack and the Beanstalk.

    Play time
    Jack and the Beanstalk review – panto season’s not yet behind you!

  • ‘I am a theatre nerd’ … Alistair McDowall in Manchester.

    ‘I thought I’d written a stinker’ – Alistair McDowall on global hit Pomona and new play The Glow

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