Details

Two children in the woods - the gingerbread house and a wicked witch. Traditional panto that rarely shows the black and violent side of the original story! Teenagers Hansel and his sister Gretel live a comfortable life with their widowed father in the city until father loses all his money... again. This time however, father comes up with a foolproof plan for success (again) as a woodcutter. The whole family, including Hansel and Gretel’s new stepmother, move to the middle of nowhere, also known as, a cottage at the edge of a spooky forest. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the forest is also home of the Wicked Wicked Witch who with the help of the Wolf lures Hansel and Gretel to her candy-clad cottage deep in the forest. With their new friends Arabella, Yellow Bird and Monty Mole, Hansel and Gretel embark on one of the scariest and most exciting adventures of their lives and discover a bit about themselves along the way.

Cast/Performers

Marcus Powell (Dame), Darren Hart (Hansel), Nathan Amzi, Natalie Best, Marcus Cunningham, Peter Howe, Susan Lawson-Reynolds, Josephine Lloyd Welcome, Gemma Salter, Tony Timberlake

Creatives/Company

Author: Hope Massiah
Director: Dawn Reid
Musical Director: Robert Hyman
Design: Jenny Tiramani
Choreographer: Omar K Okai
Lighting: Zerlina Hughes
Sound: James Tebb (for Thames Audio)
Music(s): Darren Benjamin, Kuljit Bhamra, Excalibah, Robert Hyman, Perry Melius, Wayne Nunes