In A Beary TwistedTale: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, we
once again hear Glenn A. Hascall’s penchant for irreverent, metafictional
interaction between storyteller and characters.
I am discovering this is a familiar aspect of his audio writing, and
though it becomes a bit less remarkable with repeated exposure, I still admire
it exceedingly. In his rewrite of this
familiar fairy tale, he often explains away the more puzzling tenets of the
fiction by having the characters question their own motivations—sometimes quite
literally. Goldilocks (Katie Dehnart) is
subjected to two bowls of extremely disgusting gruel, wondering what has
possessed her to try them other than the machinations of the puppet-master
narrator, before she drinks Teen Bear’s liquidized hamburger and strawberry
milkshake. She avoids chairs and beds
before Mama, Papa, and Teen Bear interrogate why Teen Bear does not have his
own room.
In an extended epilogue, we find out that Goldilocks makes
millions after filming her experiences with sentient speaking bears and selling
the footage to network TV. She shares
her fortunes with the Bear Family, enabling them to take up hobbies, for Teen
Bear to buy a pancake chain and make it
his own, and for herself to go on to a fully fledged media career.
I am very fond of Misfits Audio and the wide range of things
they produce and always look forward to a Glenn A. Hascall-authored piece.
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