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'How do you grow up in a world that’s anti-ageing?
'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 reinvents the classic fairytale for a new generation. This collaboration from South Australia’s internationally lauded Windmill Theatre Company and creative technology innovators Sandpit is a psychological thriller pulsing with danger, betrayal and dread.
'Hans and Gret is an anarchic, edge-of-your-seat world premiere that plunges audiences into a dangerous world of seduction and mind control where nothing is what it seems and immersive audio technology is used to whisper secrets directly into your ear.
'Don’t eat the gingerbread...'
Source: Adelaide Festival.
Production Details
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Presented by Windmill Theatre and Sandpit at Adelaide Festival, Queen's Theatre, Adelaide, 3-12 March 2023 (world premiere).
Windmill Theatre Company is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian Government through the Department for Education and Arts South Australia.
The world premiere season of Hans and Gret has been made possible through the support of the Windmill Studio Collective.
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Works about this Work
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‘How Do You Grow up in an Anti-ageing World?’ : Hansel and Gretel Gets a Dystopic, Hi-tech Update
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 1 March 2023;
— Review of Hans and Gret 2023 single work drama'Using bone conduction headphones to sow seeds of mistrust in the audience, Adelaide festival’s Hans & Gret has its creators on their toes'
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‘How Do You Grow up in an Anti-ageing World?’ : Hansel and Gretel Gets a Dystopic, Hi-tech Update
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 1 March 2023;
— Review of Hans and Gret 2023 single work drama'Using bone conduction headphones to sow seeds of mistrust in the audience, Adelaide festival’s Hans & Gret has its creators on their toes'
