This surrealistic production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale—seen twice before at Lyric—should probably be a Christmas show. But since Joffrey became Lyric’s roommate, we’re getting it now. Visually it’s nightmarish, claustrophobic, and monochromatic as a gray January day—but also striking: think fish-headed dream-scene maitre d’ overseeing a troop […]
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: The Shorts
Reader critics assess eight short works screening in the festival’s 25th edition, through Sunday at the Logan.
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Over-romanticizing the peasantry at Table, Donkey and Stick
Grimm-inspired alpine restaurant Table, Donkey and Stick serves as a cautionary tale.
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Snow White: who’s the grimmest of them all?
Snow White is really a pretty creepy fairy tale.
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The dark side of murder-mystery writer Gillian Flynn
The very first story that I remember writing was grandly called “To the Outhouse.” I was in third grade. My story was about a little pioneer girl who must pee in the night, and she has to go to the outhouse in the wilderness, where there are wolves all around. She gets devoured by the […]