She will outlive all of us, and we’ll merely be a fairy tale, a blip on her history. Most movies don’t reckon with the older, more mythical stance we held with nature in generations past, but ...

There was once upon a time a peasant who wished very badly for a child, so badly he would even be happy with a hedgehog. His wife told him that he had cursed them as she bore a child that was hedgehog ...

gathered the bones of her brother and placed them at the roots of the juniper tree. A beautiful bird sprang from the branches and sang a ravishing song, with these words: Most readers know that the ...

The boundary-breaking company adapted its play from Alissa Nutting’s modern retelling of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale “The Juniper Tree,” in which a mother kills her stepson and feeds ...

If you've only come across fairy tales courtesy of Walt Disney ... and sprinkled them with salt." "The Juniper Tree" goes even further. A wicked stepmother kills her husband's young son so ...

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The contemporary idea of the fairy tale can be traced to 1812 ... the Grimms' original stories are packed with violence and sex: "The Juniper Tree" features a stepmother killing her stepson ...

All that any of the characters can really hope to do is endure. The Juniper Tree is based on the fairy tale of the same name, collected by the Brothers Grimm but adapted into a narrative befitting ...

A couple has everything they want but a child. Comyns’s version of “The Juniper Tree,” unlike the fairy tale, ends with a nod toward the possibility of redemption, and it’s told in the ...

But in a fairy ... the Tree, and the company's spring production, The Brother and the Bird, adapts a short story by Alissa Nutting, which was based on the Brothers Grimm's "The Juniper Tree ...

There once was a mother whose child had been stolen by goblins and replaced by a changeling. Her neighbor advised her to boil water in two eggshells while he was watching, because it would make him ...