The Tiger’s Bride
by Angela Carter
Who We Are
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Marvellous Machine is made up of a couple of friends living in Oxford who’ve decided to
make a show!
Lou is a Theatre Maker with a passion for homespun retellings of
classic tales and Becki is a musician who writes and performs her own
music.
What We Want to Do
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“My father lost me to the
Beast at cards”
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We absolutely love
Angela Carter’s vivid and witty feminist twists on traditional fairy tales. The
theatricality of her writing makes her a wonderful subject for a stage adaptation.
The
Tiger’s Bride is a modern reworking of Charles Perrault’s Beauty and the Beast. Having fled abjection in Russia, Beauty and her father
arrive in a small Italian village to find that all who come here must play a
hand with La Bestia.
Turning the conventional fairy-tale on
its head, The Tiger’s Bride is a
story of desire, rebirth and embracing the Beast in all of us.
How You Can Help
We really are a brand new company. Think of us as a sort of theatrical embryo! As any
Theatre Maker knows, costs can quickly mount up! We need help raising funds for
the following (but not limited to)
- Rehearsal space
- Venue hire
- Rights to adaptation fees
- Ticketing fees
- Publicity
- Travel costs
- Props and costumes
With your generous support, we can create something really special.
We want to take our time with this project so that we can explore the text to
the best of our ability, so hire of rehearsal space is a big priority!
Grrrl Power
The Tiger’s Bride is ultimately a story
about a woman overcoming objectification and becoming the agent of her own
lifestory.
In a society where women are constantly dehumanised
by messages about having
perfect bodies in order for corporations to sell their products; where women who dare to have a voice
are threatened
with rape and violent death; and where a young man felt justified in
carrying out an extreme
act of terrorism because of a woman's right to say "No", we believe it’s important to tell
women’s stories in order to normalise the female voice and to claim women’s
bodies for their own.
By flipping the traditional story of
Beauty and the Beast on its head, Angela Carter begins to unpick the gender
norms represented in Charles Perrault’s original fairy tale, and the
limitations placed on both males and females by Western society.
Marvellous Machine are proud to bring
this magnificent story to the stage.
Other Ways You Can
Help
Money can be tight – we totally get it if you don’t feel you can
contribute but here are some other ways you can help:
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Volunteer! We’d love to hear from anybody who's interested in collaborating with us in any way they can, be it prop making, promoting the
show or even just manning the theatre bar! Get in touch with us: info@marvellousmachine.com
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Follow us on Twitter @MarvMach
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Tell your friends! Please share our campaign
on Facebook and Twitter or however you prefer.
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Finally, come and see the show! Booking info will
be shared here nearer the time. Or join our (very irregular) mailing list
to stay up to date: http://marvellousmachine.com/mailing-list/
You’re awesome ;D
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