KISSING THE WITCH
Cast Size1m, 3f
AudienceAdults
Art FormPlays
Description
Adapted from her book of thirteen revisionist fairy tales of the same name, this play interweaves four classic plots - Beauty and the Beast, Donkeyskin, the Goose Girl, the Little Mermaid - with an invented one about a desperate girl going to a witch for help. Kissing the Witch finds the gritty in the fantastical, and excavates magic to find what's really going on.
It appears in Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays (Oberon Books, 2015).
Reviews
‘'Women's lives flow together in Donoghue's fantasia. ... The glittering blade of Donoghue's language remains the show's strongest instrument. Smart, cynical aphorisms glitter brightly; so do innocent bits of wonder.'’
‘'Clever entertainments... Donoghue's sheer psychological intelligence and inventive language takes centre stage... The show captures the celebratory and riotous, fun aspects of feminism.'’