Gregory Prest’s De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail is currently playing at Soulpepper. It’s the same production (more or less… it may have been shortened by a few minutes) and the same cast as when first performed in February 2024 and I feel pretty much the same about it as I did that first time. It’s a terrific piece of theatre and I’m not sure I can greatly improve on what i wrote back then. There were though a few things that jumped out at me more this time.
Tiger Bride; which opened at Soulpepper on Tuesday is an adaptation of one of the stories in Angela Carter’s collection The Bloody Chamber. All of the stories take traditional folk tales but twist them to give the female protagonist a great deal more agency than in the original. The Tiger’s Bride, on which Tiger Bride is based, is in its turn a version of Beauty and the Beast and the adaptation, by Frank Cox-O’Connell (who also directs), Hailey Gillis and Andrew Penner has turned it into a sort of eclectic rock musical.
