'The Wild Bride' Tells an Unflinching Story With Courage and Heart
The final image in Kneehigh Theatre’s new “The Wild Bride” is a dim light bulb glowing stubbornly on a stage covered with dirt and darkness. The play, adapted from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Girl Without Hands,” offers little in the way of redemption or easy sentiment and thus may seem unfriendly soil for a dying light. Across two hours we watch the devil con a loving father into…