There are fractured fairytales, and then there's 'What You Wish For,' which smashes its source material to indistinguishable, hilarious, sexy (???), profoundly depressing smithereens! It's a story of double standards and lowered standards, in which all happiness and satisfaction come at a high and rising cost. Is it sad? Is it hilarious? YES! It moves like the wind, from climax-to-literal-climax, taking the audience on a depressing workplace journey that will keep them cackling despite it all!

WHAT YOU WISH FOR by David Hilder is a saucy modern take on the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, a story with origins that may go back 4000 years, with a version in many cultures. The Hilder version is for adults, fast- paced, cynical, hyperbolic, and replete with the hierarchal sexism of the corporate workplace. Instead of spinning straw into gold for Miller’s daughter, the goblin with the secret name fondles her as she types magic into her desktop PC, making millions in the process. A disturbing and darkly funny mixture of the old and the new. Hilder is a force.

Fans of Hilder won’t be at all surprised by this witty, sexy, trenchant take on Rumplestiltskin — and in this modern version, gold is also spun out of a kind of straw. But getting out of this impossible situation requires an equally impossible, equally painful bargain. The ending is dark, painful — still, in a very Hilder way, very darkly funny. You’ll want to read this one.