‘Retold. A Fairytale Festival without the happily ever after’ is very special to watch,
something unusual and different from your average fringe show.
★★★★ - Remotegoat
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As if by a Stair
by Amy Bethan Evans - directed by Tessa Hart

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your never-ending list of qualifications and work experience so that I may find it useful to me and rescue you from your childhood bedroom. That’s if I don’t go to one of the thousands of other maidens in your situation first. You get the picture.
- starring Ruth Marsden, Lydia Lane & Andrei Ionescu

The Snow White Complex
by Tilly Lunken - directed by Kuba Drewa

Outside a cinema Rose, Sophie and Lilly wait for the next screening of Snow White. It’s not for a while; they are far too old for this really, and yet here they still are, by the door, clinging onto the twisted dregs of a fairytale.
- starring Chloe Addiscott, Jocasta King & Priscilla Adade-Helledy

Little Red Hoodie
by Claire Booker - directed by Bradley Leech & Rebecca Hill

It’s dark, it stinks and it’s packed with victims.  Can Hoodie, Gran and Aisha escape from the Wolf’s dark belly, or should they wait for the Woodcutter?
- starring Natasha Atherton, Rebecca Peyton & Tessa Hart
  • Sound & Lighting Operator............................... Jeryn Daly
  • Stage Manager at The Space............................. Susanna Narvaez
  • Stage Manager at The Hen & Chickens....... Brian Perkins
  • Voice Overs.............................................................. Phil Adèle & Toby Joyce
Fairytales have always fascinated us and captivated audiences from young to old. Many themes are far beyond being just children’s stories and often the moral of the story can be quite sinister.

Some fairytales have origins reaching back thousands of years and over time they have constantly been changed and updated, showing how in their very core they deal with fundamental topics and issues of humanity and human nature.

Continuing the practice of adapting fairytales in order to expose and criticise stories of the contemporary world, RETOLD presents new, mature and provocative takes on three of them.

Aimed at an adult audience, although suitable for ages 12 and over.