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[wechsler]

And when the father turned to his family, and saw that the snow doves had torn out the left eyes of his two stepdaughters, and both eyes of his wife, he said to them: "Come on. Let's go home."

Comments

[redcountess]

It'll close in a week then, British people are serious about their Christmas Panto!

[webcowgirl]

It's not a panto at all. It's not a bad show, but it's not the right time of the year to be doing something that reads so clearly as a panto show (based on the title) and to have it be a straight fairy tale theatrical thing.

[d_floorlandmine]

it's not the right time of the year to be doing something that reads so clearly as a panto show (based on the title) and to have it be a straight fairy tale theatrical thing
At least not with a blurb that doesn't say "Have you ever read the original Grimm's tales? Really?"

[thewronghands]

Hah. It's a brilliant icon; I stole it from yuki_onna.

[d_floorlandmine]

Does sound like whoever wrote the blurb hadn't actually paid any attention to the show that they'd actually booked, and just assumed that it was like Disney ... [grin] Not, I suspect, a mistake that they'll have the chance to make again.

I hope heels and toes were removed?

[wechsler]

Graphically, and with cleavers.

[d_floorlandmine]

Now, that's what I call a traditional family Christmas play!

[skorpionuk]

Fantastic. I love that the blurb says "a spellbinding show for the whole family to enjoy" and "returns to the original story by the Brothers Grimm" in the same sentence.

You people clearly didn't grow up with it, except as filtered by Mr Walt... or at the very least, the copy writer didn't.

It's made me chuckle.