Bluebeard

Description

This is all we are. This is all sex is. The attempted obliteration of the self. That's why it's so brutal. All there is the plane of nature. It was what was before and will always be, and our complete annihilation, this leisurely murdered world, is after all, what is. Bluebeard invites you into his chamber to share in the violent passion of his deviant sexual acts. Will he excite you? Will he seduce you? Will he love you to death? With its provocative, intelligently handled exploration of sexually motivated violence, Bluebeard is a psycho-sexual, stark and violent reimagining of the famous fairy-tale.

Hattie Naylor has won several national and international awards for her plays and has had a number of her stories broadcast on Radio 4, including Mathilde, Solaris, J'Accuse and The Making of Ivan the Terrible. Theatre and opera work include Mother Savage for Travelling Light, the opera Odysseus Unwound for Tete a Tete, The Nutcracker for Theatre Royal Bath, Ivan and the Dogs for the Soho Theatre, and Going Dark for Fuel. She also teaches scriptwriting on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Hattie Naylor's script is full of the head-spinning facts that make astronomy both frightening and fascinating * Guardian on 'Going Dark' * Hattie Naylor's writing beautifully conveys the incredible way the boy and dogs connected to each other * Daily Telegraph on 'Ivan and the Dogs' * Hattie Naylor's stark, bleak play feels like a fairytale. Its language and rhythms have the steady simplicity of a child's speech * Guardian on 'Ivan and the Dogs' * In Hattie Naylor's text, the relationship between father and son shines so brightly [...] that it suffuses the whole play with a rich, glowing emotional depth * Scotsman on 'Ivan and the Dogs' * Hattie Naylor brings a modern adaptation of the French fable to the stage in order to question our current complicity with the objectification of women . . . poetic in style and well-executed in all * What's On Stage * . . . a gripping and incredibly intense experience. * Stage * . . . bold and thoughtful take . . . * Guardian *