Hansel and Gretel
From: Friday, 5th June 2009
To: Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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Synopsis
When their Mother sends Hansel and Gretel out of the house to look for food, the children quickly find themselves lost in the depths of a dark forest. Finally, almost starving, they find a house made of bread, cakes and sweets. No one's about; in their relief they begin to eat. However, the house is inhabited by a Witch, who hunts children to turn into gingerbread. She captures Hansel and Gretel, and begins to fatten them up, ready for the oven...
Our Review:
6 June 2009
By staging this Christmas standby in early summer, when the children are still at school, Opera Holland Park might have been expected to reclaim it for adults and explore its darker possibilities. However, that is not a step the director Stephen Barlow has chosen to take. Instead, he has brought a natty conceptual costume to the party and he is determined to wear it, irrespective of whether it fits.
The notion of setting Hänsel und Gretel in wartime, with gas masks, ration books and a jolly spiv of a Father (he deals in nothing more illicit than brooms so it’s hardly surprising money’s tight), makes vague sense for those pages in Act One when hunger grips the family; but thereafter Barlow has the devil of a job bending the Grimm plot to accommodate this conceit. For a start there’s the ticklish question of nationality. Are we in England? We appear to be, given the children’s drab school uniforms (I found myself peering round for an old w...
Cast
Catherine Hooper (Hansel)
Joana Seara (Gretel)
Anne Mason (Gertrud/Witch)
Donald Maxwell (Peter)
Katherien Allen (Sandman)
Pippa Goss (Dew Fairy)
Creative
Humperdink (Music)
Adelheid Wette (Lyrics)
Opera Holland Park (Producer)
Peter Selwyn (Conductor)
Stephen Barlow (Director)
Paul Edwards (Design)
David Greenall (Choreographer)
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