Away with the Fairies ; Theatre Grimms: The Final Chapter Trafalgar Studios .....

Evening Standard - London › December 22, 2006

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LAST Christmas, Horla Theatre Company came to this venue and gave us a heart-warming adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. This year, unfortunately, they don't save us from tears, as they present a macabre, unedifying and hard-tofollow bunch of fairytales from around the world.

Horla have plundered the oeuvre of the Brothers Grimm three times previously, and there is an unpleasant whiff of the remainder shelf here, with Grimm and non-Grimm stories all ending up looking, well, grim.

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Away with the Fairies ; Theatre Grimms: The Final Chapter Trafalgar Studios .....

Balladine, the opening piece from Poland, sets the dispiriting tone...

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