I WILL recommend this play - especially to those who are conversant in the actual Shakespearean tragedies.

I’m not going to quibble with the Bee’s reviewer: I think the staging was overwhelmed by the large “black box” style curtains and the lack of set pieces, but I thought the fracturing of Grimm’s fairy tales and homage/satire of the Bard’s tragedies was a great idea…and one that McArthur as playwright handled in a superior manner.

“All’s Red…” isn’t just a send up of the little red riding hood story - there is plenty of comic fodder from other fairy tales as well. When the wolf asks the audience what he should do now that he’s been exiled from the “deWolf” family, he muses that his time may be well spent blowing down houses of straw and brick (Three Little Pigs) or tempting shepherd boys to call out in alarm (The Boy Who Cried Wolf). Additionally, it’s not just “Romeo and Juliet” that finds its way into “All’s Red” - it’s also “Hamlet”, “Macbeth”, “King Lear” and “As You Like It”.

People who enjoy a play that provides lots of “a-ha” moments (those moments when you recognize the “inside joke”) or the obscure reference will find plenty to like here.