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...first thing you’ll notice rolling up the driveway of the Mankiw’s brick colonial house are the lush and rolling gardens that surround it. Tobin, the family’s border terrier, galumphs over, adding to the Hansel-and-Gretel-like atmosphere. Giant trees circle the property, with gigantic bees buzzing around and acorns falling from what seems to be either the very tall flora or the sky. “One of the things we wanted to do was have a nice garden in our backyard. We hired a very good gardener to come...
...come true," the Cat tells Coraline. "But it's not." He's right. In the deeply, darkly conservative spirit of most fairy tales, which are not adventures but horror stories, Coraline will find that all those sweets and sweet words are simply fattening her up for the kill, like Gretel in the gingerbread house. And Other Mother is worse than a Stepford mom. She's... well, we'll just say she's very bad, and has been so for a very long time. Almost as nefarious as her plans for her new recruit is the poison she pours...
...boys forge a fast friendship. Bruno brings Shmuel food smuggled from his kitchen and the pair finds ways to play ball and checkers despite the electric fence between them. Bruno is confused by the anti-Semitic propaganda spouted by his tutor, Herr Liszt (Jim Norton), and his older sister Gretel (Amber Beattie), and doesn’t associate his new friend with the portrayal of Jews in the books he’s forced to read. Bruno’s naïveté is one of the film’s most heart-wrenching yet endearing aspects, and Butterfield...
Hansel and Gretel Radcliffe Sunken Garden...
...rules of entertaining children, three things that kids find funny,” says Michael B. Hoagland ’07, one half of the directorship of this year’s Sunken Garden Children’s Theatre (SGCT) production, an adaptation of “Hansel and Gretel.” “Funny voices, falling down and—Oh, God—what’s the third!? I’m sure Mary can tell you.” “Mike said funny voices, falling down, and what?...