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...The first minutes include clips of Brexit rhetoric and a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston being tipped into Bristol Harbour....
...Edward Zuckerman, an award-winning TV scriptwriter, also brings energy and engaging characters to his impressive debut thriller....
...Even so, the ferocity of the Grimms’ tales did give him pause....
...First staged in 2012, the production is announced as “influenced by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale”, has design by Julian Crouch, and the score is played by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia....
...When the 1988 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the sole Arab recipient to date, the Palestinian-American critic Edward Said wrote that “of all the major literatures...
...Sally Cookson’s production draws on the Chinese Yeh-Hsien and the Grimms’ Aschenputtel and invests more in psychological truth than some....
...Grimm Tales , by Philip Pullman, Penguin, RRP£20 The His Dark Materials author retells 50 of the Grimm brothers’ stories, some familiar, others not....
...“I will not write a poem for Edward and Sophie,” she said, referring to Prince Edward’s then forthcoming marriage. “No self-respecting poet should have to.”...
...The disguised wicked witch and her child victims are in the great tradition of domestic malaise, of normality menaced by the dark outsider, from Grimm and Struwwelpeter to Edward Gorey and Lemony Snicket...
...Lord, Mr Burton,If there’s one thing simply certain,It’s you’ve got Old London licked,So ornately derelict.Take a bit of Edward GoreyAnd a lot of Gustave Dorey,And do it on the digitalWith smoke and fog...
...The tales of the brothers Grimm are nothing if not dark, and this production promises not to lighten the tone....
...Why did Edward Hopper, who made a comfortable living as an illustrator and failed to sell a single painting in 10 years, continue as an artist?...
...“Edward Scissorhands”, Sadler’s Wells, London, to February 5....
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