The Guardian Guide - "Inspired by one of the Grimm brothers'
grimmer tales, it is a story of evil stepmothers, loving sisters, murder and cannibalism. The show is winner of the 2007 Southern Comfort Commission, and should be a theatrical winner".
It is a harsh winter, too cold for a boy to be sent out alone on an errand. "Where is my child, where is my only?" the desperate father whispered to a little bird sitting in the boughs of the juniper tree. Expect to gasp and shudder as the Grimm's fairytale of The Juniper Tree is brought to life with dark and delightful music by Jon Boden. In a thrilling new telling, Goat and Monkey create a tale of magic trees, evil stepmothers, singing birds and enduring love.
Reverence: A Tale of Abelard and Heloise
Radio 4 Saturday Review - "Really tremendously powerful"
Time Out Critics Choice
The Guardian - "The entire show drips with forbidden desires, sexual jealousy, religious repression, and blood... Goat and Monkey is a young company of particular promise."
Deep beneath London Bridge Station, in the blackened heart of catacombs long forgotten, by the frail light of one hundred broken bulbs, shadowy figures lurch from the gloom to enact an ancient tragedy, the tale of Abelard and his Heloise...
"Then there is no more left than this..."
The Ghost Sonata
The Guardian - "Peepholes in the walls give glimpses into worlds within worlds, and if you put your ear to doors you can hear whispers and creaks as if the building is crying out in despair..."
In a subterranean electrician’s warehouse by the banks of the river Thames, a household continues to exist by century-old bourgeois tradition. The grotesque inhabitants scuttle and scheme in the depths of the basement, suffering each other’s indulgences. When a new figure arrives to haunt them with the threat of a bomb that has lain dormant for twenty years, will their fate be sealed in the darkness?
“He who has done no wrong has naught to fear. Pity. Pity on us all…"
