Beasts and Beauties

Adapted by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Still recreates a grisly and gruesome, hilarious and hair-raisingly funny otherworld, carved from six dark and dangerous fairy tales from across Europe. These beautifully realised uproarious stories have thrilled and chilled children and adults for generations. Encounter Bluebeard’s creepy castle with that irresistible locked room and the ludicrous vanity of a (naked) Emperor; see the horrible Beast who yearns for love and the farmer who thought he’d swap work for housekeeping so he could have a rest! Someone usually lives happily ever after in these enjoyably macabre tales, but not everyone, and not always.