Barn theatre, CirencesterThis bewitching but at times confusing adaptation offers a spin on the familiar story before swerving into panto mode The Grimm brothers' Aschenputtel is far from the anodyne version of Cinderella we often see now. When the pair recorded the folktale in 1812, it was a gothic story " with an unforgiving Calvinist morality " of a magic tree planted on a dead mother's grave and of stepsisters wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM on November 19, 2021