Play: What Big Teeth You Have!
Reviewer: William Hall
Reviewer Email: whsf@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
I was able to see this plan at the Seattle Fringe and it is WONDERFUL. Eve
Smyth is an engaging and talented performer. She charms the audience from
her first moment on stage. She takes us down the seductive path of Little
Red Riding Hood into the dark woods of what it means to be a woman! This
is good stuff! Done with humor and intellegence-just what you want from
a fringe show!!!! Plan to see it.
Play: What Big Teeth You Have! Or Little Red Bites Back
Reviewer: Seattle Fringe Rag Review
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Rating: 5 Stars
Theatre Au Naturel's Eve Smyth is the star of this psychosexual deconstruction
of Little Red Riding Hood, a hilarious exploration of the loss of innocence
and of the various issues at stake in time worn fairytales. The tale of
Little Red's diversion from the path is shot through with elements from
Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella. Smyth renders her three characters
(innocent Little Red, sensuous Beauty, and slightly bitter Myrtle the Fairy
Godmother) masterfully, able to drastically shift tone and setting at the
drop of a hat or the twist of a scarf. Smyth's nimble and quick dramatic
footwork allows the overarching theme of female sexual awakening to becme
clearly evident. What Big Teeth You Have! is incisive, fun, and hilarious.
Play: What Big Teeth You Have! Or Little Red Bites Back
Reviewer: The Stranger, a Seattle Alternative Weekly
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Rating: 5 Stars
This smart one-woman show comes courtesy of San Francisco's Theatre Au Naturel,
and it's a joy. Eve Smyth fleshes out three fairy tale figures: Little Red
Riding Hood (the quintessential edible/Oedipal child) is the innocent on
the verge of womanhood. Myrtle, the mother of all fairy godmothers, resents
the ungratefulness of her various charges-Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping
Beauty, etc.-once they get what they want. And the vamp is the implied but
unnamed villainess of Brothers Grimm fantasy. Not surprisingly, the vamp
finds herself quite attracted to the wolf: "I found myself drawn,"
she purrs in my new favorite line, "like an actor to a pretentious
script." But civilizing forces back at the suburban palace want to
reclaim her for a less hairy mate. Smyth palys out the politics behind these
fairy tale models with humor and a wolfish bite. It's the perfect bedtime
story.
Play: What Big Teeth You Have! Or Little Red Bites Back
Reviewer: The Seattle Weekly
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Rating: 5 Stars
Eve Smyth's one-woman deconstruction of "Little Red Riding Hood"
hits the fairy tale from all sides, as Little Red strays from the Path of
Virtue. She instead decides to make her own way, to "break free from
the beaten path which is fast becoming a rut." When she does, she metamorphoses
into the Fallen Red, a sexually craven woman whose story becomes Beauty's
(as in "and the Beast"). Outside the path, the somestimes disturbing
universe of fairy tales is governed by the chipper Good Fairy, Myrtle, whose
wish-grantees include none other than Cinderella. Smyth is a delight in
all three roles, leading us around the entire Brothers Grimm with sparkle,
confidence, and sass. |