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...This time it’s a nightmarish mix of Grimm and Pinter, and the play is 20 years old: the first West End revival of Martin McDonagh’s jet-black comedy The Pillowman....
...Designer Paul Steinberg aims to give the set “a dreamlike quality” using the reflective floor, while the forest is intended to supply “a fairytale aspect” reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm....
...But at the outset it feels rather effortful, despite the engaging cast and a mesmerising central performance from Paul Capsis as Rumpelstiltskin....
...How very Brothers Grimm....
...The charity, Grimm & Co, aims to help children up to the age of 18 to fulfil their potential through writing....
...Matt Harvey and Thomas Hewitt Jones turn the Grimm fairytale into a smart, small-scale musical that combines topical economic points with strangeness and magic....
...Kate Duchêne’s witch is neatly pitched between weirdly funny and creepy and is furnished with a juicy solo justifying her choice of diet (music, by Paul Clark, played by John Paul Gandy on an absurdly augmented...
...Why this grotesque court, dressed in the height of modish fatuity by Jean Paul Gaultier and reluctant to wear shoes?...
...Kai Rüütel and Aylish Tynan make a well-blended title pair, supported by Paul Carey Jones and Shuna Scott Sendall as the parents....
...Over the past few years contemporary fashion and Hollywood’s interpretation of tales Grimm and not-so-grim have come closer and closer together....
...Grimm Tales , by Philip Pullman, Penguin, RRP£20 The His Dark Materials author retells 50 of the Grimm brothers’ stories, some familiar, others not....
...Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s joyously funny and characterful animated comedy about a man and his best friend, based on British writer J.R....
...When you talk to McCartney, Paul permanently hovers on the sidelines, an omnipresent spirit known as Our Kid. Our Kid is never more than an anecdote away....
...Abrams); Coraline (★★★★☆, Henry Selick); Chéri (★★★☆☆, Stephen Frears); Little Ashes (★★★☆☆, Paul Morrison); Sounds Like Teen Spirit (★★☆☆☆, Jamie J....
...In the Valley of Elah, written and directed by Paul Haggis, is the newest movie sent into battle in cinema’s war on US foreign policy....
...Mike Shepherd plays both dame (Mother Gothel) and baddie (evil Prince Paulo) and Paul Hunter gives a lovely comic performance, trying repeatedly to leave the story. This is vintage Kneehigh....
...Germany 12 Wilhelm Grimm Germany 13 Bible (New Testament) 14 Isaac Asimov US 15 Mark Twain US 16 Alexandre Dumas France 17 John Paul II Poland 18 Georges Simenon Belgium 19 Jack London US 20 Arthur...
...Was this cultural imperialism, claiming for the US a tale written by the Brothers Grimm? Or did she confuse the baby-snatching dwarf with Rip van Winkle?...
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