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Theatre: Review - The Ugly Sisters
SUSAN DARLINGTON finds an in your face production of the classic tale proves too exhausting
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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
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JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
The Ugly Sisters
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Two stars
It’s becoming common practice to give fairytales a feminist makeover but few are as dark and intense as RashDash's adaptation of Cinderella.
Presenting the viewpoint of the heroine's loud and disruptive Ugly Sisters - "We're reclaiming the word!" - this one-acter is confrontational and uncomfortable to watch despite moments of humour and clever choreography.
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