A world premiere production of Blue Beard, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, is set to embark on a UK tour next February. Rice is the artistic director of Wise Children, who co-produce the piece ...

Emma Rice said today, "Not wanting to add to the number of dead women that are scattered throughout our literature and media, I have always avoided the gruesome tale of Blue Beard. However, haunted by ...

There once was a rich man who lived outside Baghdad, who had many riches but also had a blue beard which frightened all the women away. His neighbor had two fine sons and daughters, and he desired one ...

In her programme notes, Emma Rice states that she has always disliked the story of Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard, as it arguably glamourises the charming, swaggering serial killer of wives over the ...