Fairy tales are not bastions of feminist literature. Given the time they were written in, this isn’t exactly surprising. Some of them really stand out as horrific stories of the dangers of being a ...

The story of Bluebeard, the monstrous aristocrat who entraps and kills one wife after another, is a very old one indeed. It almost certainly predates Charles Perrault, the 17th-century French ...

The classic murderer’s tale gets an offbeat update in thisversion from French filmmaking maverick Catherine Breillat. Two girls from the 1950s discover the novel and begin reading italoud before we ...

A door that locks without anyone touching it, rendering escape impossible. A large man who overpowers, beast-like. A man wears a mask of virtue that he removes behind closed doors. These striking and ...

With an aesthetic reminiscent of Fringe favourites Little Bulb, Milk tell a fairy tale full of darkness and ribald humour using song, dance, physical theatre and projection. The story is that of the ...

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The Blue Room Theatre exposes the sexually perverted exploits of “Bluebeard,” a deranged scientist on a mysterious island, in very graphic detail. And I do mean graphic. This melodrama by Charles ...

And the next film by Anna Biller—the director of The Love Witch, one of the best films of 2017—is… well, it’s not actually a film. It’s a book. A riff on the dark fairy tale of Bluebeard, a man whose ...

Bluebeard’s Wife Or, “Dark Fairy Tales Re-Imagined for Our Time.” Presented by students in SPT’s Youth Program. Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green Lake Ave. N., 524-1300, ...

Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review was originally published from the 2018 SXSW Interactive Festival ...