About
- AGES 13+
- 75mins
When Hans and Gret’s mum arrives home from a radical health retreat with the years literally shaved off her, their lives are thrown into chaos.
As parents become teenagers again and kids all over their community start disappearing, the pair are led down a seductive forest path that will see them leave everything they know behind.
Part teenage fever-dream, part dystopian nightmare, Hans and Gret warps reality to epically reinvent a classic fairytale and turn it into a tripped-out psychological thriller pulsing with danger, betrayal, and dread.
Based on an original concept by Rosemary Myers and written by Lally Katz Hans and Gret is an anarchic, knife-edge world premiere that uses immersive audio technology to plunge audiences into a dangerous world of seduction, mind control and candy.
Don’t eat the gingerbread.
What the critics say
"Clever and engaging... equal to the best of theatre for youth anywhere."
The Conversation
"It’s risky stuff, made all the more so by the ingenious use of technology on an individual level... a marvel."
The Advertiser
"Utterly fascinating... A production not to be missed."
The Barefoot Review
"★★★★ As innovative as it is spectacular... a dynamic contemporary reworking of an iconic fairytale."
Hi-Fi Way
Acknowledgements
A Windmill Theatre Company and Sandpit production presented in association with Adelaide Festival. Assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body