Chicago Theater Review: SHOCKHEADED PETER (Black Button Eyes Productions)
SCHADENFREUDE GETS ITS SHOW We learn from fear, even if it's the wrong lessons. Well before Mark Twain's "Slovenly Peter," let alone Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl or Tim Burton, there was Heinrich Hoffmann. Written in 1845, his sardonic masterpiece Der Struwwelpeter was a children's book meant to scare little readers into good deeds"or at least into phobias […]