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Apr. 30th, 2004 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cybermuleI am so unbelievably cold.
*judder*
Well, those fairytales at the theatre yesterday... there were eight of them. Beauty and the Beast and the Emperor's New Clothes were quite straightfoward. Heh - the emperor had a prime minister that impersonated Tony Blair :D There was a feminist rewrite of the tale of the man who swapped work with his wife for the day and made a total screw-up of it. A story about a dog and a wolf, and one about a girl and the north wind. Can't remember all of them right now.
One that really stuck in my mind was a tale of a juniper tree: a mother has a baby from a juniper tree, a wicked stepmother kills him and makes him into a stew. His dad eats him, his sister takes his bones and wraps them in silk to bury them under the juniper tree. The tree bursts into flmae and a pheonix-bird appears and sings about the cruel things that were done to the son. With the beauty of his song, the bird wins a gold chain, red shoes and a millstone, and he then gives them to the father, the sister and the step-mother respectively, killing the woman and turning back into the son.
*judder*
Well, those fairytales at the theatre yesterday... there were eight of them. Beauty and the Beast and the Emperor's New Clothes were quite straightfoward. Heh - the emperor had a prime minister that impersonated Tony Blair :D There was a feminist rewrite of the tale of the man who swapped work with his wife for the day and made a total screw-up of it. A story about a dog and a wolf, and one about a girl and the north wind. Can't remember all of them right now.
One that really stuck in my mind was a tale of a juniper tree: a mother has a baby from a juniper tree, a wicked stepmother kills him and makes him into a stew. His dad eats him, his sister takes his bones and wraps them in silk to bury them under the juniper tree. The tree bursts into flmae and a pheonix-bird appears and sings about the cruel things that were done to the son. With the beauty of his song, the bird wins a gold chain, red shoes and a millstone, and he then gives them to the father, the sister and the step-mother respectively, killing the woman and turning back into the son.
