

A Gorgeously Immersive Faerie Bacchanal
✮✮✮✮✮ Caryl Churchill's The Skriker Manchester International Festival | Manchester directed by Sarah Frankcom There's nothing new about tough fairies: Angela Carter's retellings are a punchy reminder that they used to be meant for adults, not children, while the vogue for dark stagings of the Grimm Tales has firmly reminded their audiences that the Cinderella's ugly sisters cut their own toes off, or that Rapunzel gave birth to illegitimate twins in the wildness. But Caryl Ch