Hansel and Gretel - January 2015
Written & directed by Jill Machin
Writer Jill Machin says that it's always bothered her that the witch in Hansel and Gretel spends all day amusing herself turning her house into a gingerbread house, and then Hansel and Gretel come along and start to eat it - and she's expected to be ok with that! She thought the true story might be more like this panto, when not only Hansel, Gretel and the witch, but a cast of children, pixies, a cat, two fairies, Dame Goodheart and family - not forgetting a laughing policeman and a grumpy shopkeeper - oh, and horrible Fritz and brave Prince Rupert - showed us what REALLY happened. Maybe.