This was the largest ever cast for a F1 Play and Carol Ann Duffy’s adaptations of eight European folk tales, Beasts and Beauties, provided many opportunities for an exuberant and talented cast. Deaths were bloody; limbs were severed; husbands scorned; chainsaws wielded; wands waved; sweeties distributed. Sisters were nasty; beasts were transformed; maidens were wedded and chests and buttocks were bared (just the Emperor’s). And endings were happy (except for those that didn’t survive)! Thanks, and well done, to all of the cast and crew involved. Here are a few highlights…
