BLUE BEARD (U.K.)
A Wise Children, Birmingham Rep, HOME Manchester, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and York Theatre Royal co-production
written and directed by EMMA RICE
Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick - things just seem to vanish. Cards, coins, scarves… and women.
Puff! Gone. Without a trace.
He meets his match when his young bride discovers his dark and murderous secret. She summons all her rage, all her smarts and all her sisters to bring the curtain down on his tyrannous reign.
Emma Rice brings her own brand of theatrical wonder to this most beguiling and disturbing of tales. With her signature sleight of hand, Blue Beard explores curiosity and consent, violence and vengeance - all through an intoxicating lens of music, wit and tender truth.
'Emma Rice rips apart the fairytale in a show that sees the writer/director at the top of her game… It’s a ragged howl of a show that starts with a roar, ends with a sob and kills with laughter in between’ ★★★★★ The Stage
‘Magnificently mischievous’ ★★★★ The Guardian
'The show's elements of magic, song, wild glamour and sharp storytelling merge into a glittering and enthralling cabaret of feminist resistance' ‘an Angela Carter-influenced steampunk spectacle as thrilling as the maelstrom of radical emotion and ideas that swirls through it’ ★★★★ The Scotsman
Touring considerations: flown LED screen and three traps in the DS floor, each containing blood, water and mud
Length: 2 hours, including intermission
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