{"id":1171,"date":"2021-07-23T19:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1171"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:40:46","slug":"the-savage-joy-of-breaking-things","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1171","title":{"rendered":"The Savage Joy of Breaking Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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full-length play produced in 2007 at the Playwrights\u2019 Center
written & directed by Steve Schroer
based on the 1882 story* \u201cThe New Mother\u201d by Lucy Lane Clifford
full video<\/a> on YouTube<\/p>\n\n\n\n

review<\/a> in Variety
“What was once ostensibly a story for children is here presented for adults with raw, fearful, subterranean power.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something’s coming out of the forest, and it isn’t nice. David Lynch meets Mother Goose in this adaptation of an eerie fantasy classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Savage Joy of Breaking Things<\/em> is based on Lucy Lane Clifford\u2019s \u201cThe New Mother,\u201d which must be one of the strangest stories ever written. On a superficial level it\u2019s a tale about two children who pay a terrible price for misbehaving. Examined more closely, however, it becomes complex and mysterious, with echoes of the Biblical Fall of Man and the Greek myth of Pandora\u2019s Box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardcover\u2019s adaptation fleshes out the story, adding plot and characters as well as developing themes. The result is a dreamlike play full of love, longing, violence, and magic, with an ending that will send chills down your spine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cast: 3M, 4F<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*  never before, to the best of our knowledge, adapted for the theater<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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