Everyone seems to know the story of Cinderella, because fairy tales have been part of our imagination for a very long time. But which version do we know?
Joël Pommerat freely and unashamedly revisits the fairy tale of the Grimm brothers and Charles Perrault with a magical version of Cinderella.
This is a far cry from the sanitised world of Disney . Let's start with a brief overview of the play: a little girl loses her mum and has to learn to live, with her father, in a new environment where she doesn't seem accepted. The image of the wicked stepmother hangs over the family tragedy, and Cinderella suffers a little more every day: relegated to a squalid room, a sort of vault, she seems trapped by her grief. Little by little, Sandra becomes Cinderella...
Pommerat uses material from several fairy tales and in particular constructs a modern image of the ‘wicked stepmother jealous of the past’.
All the ingredients of the initiation ritual are there: fear, separation, humiliation, the search for love. The cruelty of the tale is laid bare, unvarnished.
This is not Joël Pommerat's first adaptation of childhood tales.
Both his Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio have revolutionised the theatrical approach, giving them a fresh reading without denying their historical roots.
This is a far cry from the sanitised world of Disney . Let's start with a brief overview of the play: a little girl loses her mum and has to learn to live, with her father, in a new environment where she doesn't seem accepted. The image of the wicked stepmother hangs over the family tragedy, and Cinderella suffers a little more every day: relegated to a squalid room, a sort of vault, she seems trapped by her grief. Little by little, Sandra becomes Cinderella...
Pommerat uses material from several fairy tales and in particular constructs a modern image of the ‘wicked stepmother jealous of the past’.
All the ingredients of the initiation ritual are there: fear, separation, humiliation, the search for love. The cruelty of the tale is laid bare, unvarnished.
This is not Joël Pommerat's first adaptation of childhood tales.
Both his Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio have revolutionised the theatrical approach, giving them a fresh reading without denying their historical roots.
