The Juniper Tree @ Quay Arts.
Mar 27th, 2008 | By Island Pulse | Isle of Wight News From The Island PulseCarolyn Keene reports: The Quay Arts Centre are offering an unforgettable theatrical journey with an afternoon of live music, storytelling and magic for intrepid adults and brave children from age 7 plus with the THE JUNIPER TREE on Saturday 29th March at 3pm.
Goat & Monkey, a young company with a growing reputation for producing inventive and original theatre, have won national praise for their fresh approach to modern theatre. This latest work fulfils all expectations.
A long time ago, in a time when witches still roamed, there lived a good and honest widower who married a woman whom he loved. He had a son with rosy red cheeks, and she had a daughter who was good and honest. But the wife was wicked and greedy, and when greed whispers into jealousy’s ear, strange things begin to happen …
‘Inspired by one of the Grimm Brothers’ grimmer tales, it is a story of evil stepmothers, loving sisters, murder and cannibalism.
The show is winner of the 2007 Southern Comfort Commission, and should be a theatrical winner.’ The Guardian Guide Sat 9th Feb 2008 Lyn Gardner ‘A company to watch out for’
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