HAIRY TALES | Matthew W. Woods

GALLERY

Angela Carter’s

HAIRY TALES

Now is the time the wild beasts come out, now is the savage time of year... Shut the shutters! Bar the door! Throw more logs on the fire! Make a great blaze! Keep the wolves outside!

And come. Be cozy by the fire as we spin for you twisted tales of terror inspired by the vivid imagination of Angela Carter. Sleeping Beauty becomes a Gothic tale of blood lust in Vampirella, and in The Company of Wolves, Little Red Riding Hood discovers the beast within.

FOOTNOTES

Brian Balduzzi,

My Entertainment World

Dark Voices Come to Vivid Life in Hairy Tales

Christina Phillips Mattson,

Marvels and Tales

"The Imaginary Beasts production of Angela Carter's Hairy Tales...made a sincere and refreshing effort to remind its audience that fairy tales are not the colorful, sanitized, robustly happy Disney interpretations that have dominated our culture for the past half-century."

Jeffrey Gantz,

Boston Globe

Out for blood in "Hairy Tales"

Michael Cox,

Edge / Boston

"So much of Matthew Woods’ vision is modern dance-like: kinetic pictures, crafted with light and sound. Never siding with the individual, he is dedicated to the ensemble. The team works as a unit to express each of the fantastic visual images, and we luxuriate in the visual splendor."

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