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The substantial Bad Wolf is locked up with Captain Hook and co in an ingenious, witty musicalA few years ago a survey found that a substantial number of parents believed traditional fairytales were too scary to read to their children. But maybe you can’t have the light without the dark, or the good without the bad? Maybe we need our villains in order to have heroes – and perhaps nobody is wholly a rotter or a saint? That’s the premise of this ingenious and often witty musical by Nancy Harris and Marc Teitler.
It begins with the substantial Bad Wolf (Dean Nolan) approximately to gobble up Red Riding Hood when the tale gets stopped by the police,apparently acting on the directions of the Council of Bedtime Stories. While Wolfie protests that he’s only doing his job and the tale cant be finished without him, he soon finds himself sharing a cell with other storybook villains including Captain Hook (Miles Yekinni), and the gruesome Sisters (Claire Sundin and Kelly Agbowu) and Rumpelstiltskin (David McKay).
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Source: theguardian.com