No Disney Ending for This Woodworker
Rachel SaltzApril 18, 2012: What would a world without art be like? In “Pinocchio’s Ashes,” the Danish playwright Jokum Rohde’s leaden satire, the answer is: unpleasant.
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Pinocchio's Ashes tells a gripping story filled with melancholy, poetry and dark humor. It is set in the city of Kongstad, where a national ban has been imposed on art and culture. Judge Wolff enforces the ban by ordering severe punishments of those secretly practicing art. When an informant finds a Pinocchio doll in the workshop of local cabinet-maker Werner Brown, he reports the crime to Wolff, who sentences Brown to have his right hand cut off.
April 18, 2012: What would a world without art be like? In “Pinocchio’s Ashes,” the Danish playwright Jokum Rohde’s leaden satire, the answer is: unpleasant.
READ THE REVIEW