Julie Taymor's fever dream where the court fool burns it all down—literally.
A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.
Direction
Taymor's puppetry and mask work is genuinely unhinged.
Production
Sets that look like Bruegel paintings come alive—barely.
Acting
Michael J. Anderson's Hopfrog: rage in a tiny, magnificent package.
Director
Julie Taymor
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