Blue Beard - Wise Children @ Battersea Arts Centre

Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick – things just seem to vanish. Cards, coins, scarves… and women.

Puff! Gone. Without a trace.

He meets his match when his young bride discovers his dark and murderous secret. She summons all her rage, all her smarts and all her sisters to bring the curtain down on his tyrannous reign.

Emma Rice brings her own brand of theatrical wonder to this most beguiling and disturbing of tales. With her signature sleight of hand, Blue Beard explores curiosity and consent, violence and vengeance – all through an intoxicating lens of music, wit and tender truth.

When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR!

‘A wondrous, beguiling playground of the imagination’  The New York Times ★★★★★

‘Everyone involved is reaching for the heights in this emotionally epic entertainment‘  The Times ★★★★★

‘A wildly imaginative, exhilarating piece of theatre‘  Daily Mail ★★★★★

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