Gretel
Gretel: Freya Davis
Hansel: Dylan Jones
Father: Calum Blackie
Mother: Molly Perkins
Stepmother: Zoe Bull
Witch: Sophia Rowlatt
Mad Witch 1: Syd Sutherland
Mad Witch 2: Ciaran Walker
Hansel Witch: Oscar Webster
Gretel Witch: Abbey Elston
Mother Witch: Liv Cond
Gentleman Witch: Connor Parris
Guardian: Will Parsons
Mother: Kitty Duffy
Freda: Eve Hatz
Father: Connor Parris
Magda: Freya Travis
Children: Emilia Danks-Smith, Mary Travis
Sophie Anderson, Scarlett Hulse, Lilly Lister, Lyla Macleod, Leah Moss, Phoebe Roberts, Elysia Sully, Ed Twyman, Jacob White, Frank Wormald
Sam Almond, Alice Battersby, Betsy Burgess, Lloyd Currie, Charlotte Davies, Isabella Gaiser, Lucy Griffiths, Emilia Hall, Lauren Heaps, Bella Heseldon-Hamer, Isobel Lynch-Bell, Lily McElfatrick, Poppy Mitchell, Quillan Mitchell, Olivia Nolan, Tom Quash, Dylan Somanathan, Joe Stevenson
Toby Quash (in collaboration with The Blank-Shift Writers’ Workshop)
Emily Quash
Dave Fawbert
Teagan Gough, Mollie Blake, Amberqway Alford, Esme Fleeman
Kris Vankay
Matt Cater
Chris Johns
Richard Cooper
Sam Young
Katy Tunstall, Georgie White
Matt Dennes
‘Gretel’ was a brand new commission, written by Toby Quash with members of the Blank-Shift Writers’ Workshop. Delving back to the original sources of the traditional tale of ‘Hansel & Gretel’, this startling new version was set against the backdrop of the Thirty Years War, wear famine and poverty pervaded much of Eastern Europe. This production blended stunning visual design, with live music, song, dance and aerial work, with exciting video graphics by Kris Vankay bending the fragile lines between reality and the surreal.
It’s a cracking spectacle, that’s for sure, with lashings of breath-taking circus rope work and a soupçon of spell-binding ballet, and characteristically rich and deep with reverberations beyond all we immediately encounter with our eyes and ears.
