There’s always a seductive pull to seeing Grimm tales made grimmer - or at least more in step with our modern sensibilities - but stripped of their richer descriptive powers in print, this Irish author’s fables seem like retro revisionism. The list of notable updates ranges wide, from cartoonist Jay Ward’s “Fractured” satires to “Into the Woods’ ” musical melancholy, Angela Carter’s darkly sexualized fictions and the NC-17 Little Red Rider in da ‘Hood cult pic “Freeway.” Likewise seeking to burrow deeper into bedtime stories is Emma Donoghue’s “Kissing the Witch,” a stage omnibus adapted from her acclaimed 1997 novel. The lingering impact that fairy tales have on us as children has made them increasingly popular for adult re-interpretation, given our era of fixation on formative years as both nostalgia-glazed “lost innocence” and explanatory key to grown-up woes.
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