"I should like to learn how to shudder," says the boy to his father in the early moments of Shudder, a blood-soaked new adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Is." The protagonist (a terrific performance from Charles Arendall), referred to only as "The Boy," has never experienced fear. When the town's Sexton (Jim Eshom) tells the boy's father he can teach the boy what it is to shudder, a terrible accident befalls the Sexton at the hands of the fearless boy and he is forever cast away. And so the boy sets out on his own personal mission to learn what it means to shudder. Shudder is written and directed for the stage by Amelia Gotham,...
- 2/8/2011
- FEARnet
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