![]() The stage resembled a lounge, of sorts, or maybe more a boudoir. It felt like we had stepped into a storybook or been transported to another realm, every one of us an Alice in Wonderland. We walked into the auditorium to see a finely decorated stage. So, when I heard that Proteus Theatre had (somehow) adapted the novel to the stage, I knew I had to review it. ![]() I studied the novel for A-Level English Literature, and few pieces of fiction have stuck with me like The Bloody Chamber has. The novel critiques and subverts not just patriarchy but society more broadly each story deconstructs civilisation as we know it, calling attention to materialism and artifice. It follows the original fairy tale quite closely, with feminist subversions and reclamations along the way, whilst the stories that follow radically reinvent the much-loved, misogynistic fairy tales that everybody knows. The book begins with the title story, a novella, a retelling of Bluebeard (French: Barbe bleue). ![]() The novel is a collection of stories, each a feminist retelling of a fairy tale or folklore. Amongst other inventive, progressive works, she is remembered for her seminal novel, The Bloody Chamber. ![]() One of the foremost feminist authors is the late, great Angela Carter. ![]()
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