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Nin Harris
Registered User
(2/2/06 11:28 pm)
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Drama/Plays with a fairytale/mythopoeic basis
Hi,
I am not sure if this topic has been covered yet, but I'm looking for titles of plays or playwrights who have fairytale or mythic motifs in their plays. Apart from people like Yeats, Synge or Sondheim my mind is blank right now. Thought it would make an interesting topic of discussion.
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(2/3/06 8:26 am)
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Re: Drama/Plays with a fairytale/mythopoeic basis
If you're considering musicals, then there's the Disney films that have been made into musicals, Beauty and the Beast and (arguably) Lion King.
Other Broadway musicals:
Wicked, (which is derived from Wizard of Oz), Brigadoon, Camelot, Cinderella, Into the Woods, Once Upon a Mattress and The Wiz.
There's also a slightly obscure Canadian musical called Reflections
on Crooked Walking which seems to be an original story. (www.annmortifee.com/REFLECT.html)
There are many play versions of fairy tales, but few that have made it big. Typically, they wind up as either musicals, animation or TV productions.
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AliceCEB
Registered User
(2/3/06 8:45 am)
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Re: Drama/Plays with a fairytale/mythopoeic basis
Immediately coming to mind are J.M. Barrie's "Peter and Wendy"; Shakespeares' "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Tempest", and "Macbeth". In the archives, fairly recently, there was a discussion of operas and ballets.
Best,
Alice
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Chris Peltier
Registered User
(2/3/06 1:01 pm)
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Re: Drama/Plays with a fairytale/mythopoeic basis
Christopher Wood, in a chapter entitled "Fairy Theatre" from his book Fairies in Victorian Art, has this wonderful description:
In the late Victorian period, it became fashionable in aesthetic circles to revive the masque....The success of these masques led the aesthetic impresario J. Comyns Carr, who had been one of the founders of the Grosvenor Gallery, to persuade Walter Crane to design the costumes for 'The Snowman', an elaborate Christmas entertainment at the Lyceum. In the final transformation scene, the stage is populated by a new breed of aesthetic fairies: architects and builders, painters, weavers, potters, carpenters and jewellers, all in costumes designed by Crane, each fairy holding a suitable attribute. This was pantomime raised to a new highbrow and aesthetic level.
Now that I'd love to see!
~Chandra~
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