![]() She wins the heart of a king and becomes a queen, but her new stepdaughter, raven-haired and pale of skin, is an enigma with a taste for apples and blood. It begins with a romance, one that might have led to a happy-ever-after conclusion by any other writer. She is unemotional, a chronicler without an audience. ![]() She's telling the tale because she needs it to be told no one but her knows events as she witnessed them, and she expects no one to recall her version when everything's said and done. Neuwirth, her voice already cold and dead, recounts the almost familiar story with chilling matter-of-factness. The story, already gripping enough on the printed page, finds new depth in this vocal rendition. Told from the perspective of the stepmother (voiced by Bebe Neuwirth), the fable is certainly not Disneyfied when Gaiman is through with it! (Who would expect references to oral sex, among other things, in such a "wholesome" fairy tale?) The first tale adds a vampiric twist to the hackneyed story of Snow White. ![]() ![]() Two of Neil Gaiman's short stories challenge the aural senses in Two Plays for Voices, a two-disc set collecting Snow Glass Apples and Murder Mysteries as originally recorded by Seeing Ear Theatre, directed and produced by Brian Smith for the SciFi Channel. ![]() Neil Gaiman, Two Plays for Voices: Snow Glass Apples, Murder Mysteries ![]()
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