ONE Picture My Story exhibition shares Black heritage at Peckham Library Stranger Sings at Southwark Playhouse

A new version of the Brothers Grimm’s fairytale, Hansel and Gretel, by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is set to transform the Globe Theatre this winter.

The boy’s name was Hansel, the girl’s was Gretel; their dad was a woodcutter and their mum, a breadmaker. In the rubble of their war-torn village, the parents decide that the only chance they have to give their children a safer life is to lead them – and leave them – in the woods.

Left to fend for themselves, Hansel and Gretel’s plans to find their way home get sidetracked, quite literally, by a trail of treats too good to resist and they meet a strange, old lady with a plan of her own.

The show is filled with music, magic, songs and a sprinkling of hope. The stage premiere of this new production of Simon Armitage’s poem, directed by Nick Bagnall (Love’s Labour Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Globe), is suitable for everyone aged five and over.

Tickets are priced from £5 to £55 and half-price seated tickets for under-18s are available for all performances. The show runs from 8th December to 7th January.

The show is filled with music, magic, songs and a sprinkling of hope.

The Vault presents the award-winning, smash-hit parody musical Stranger Sings.

Following a sell-out run underground and extensive UK tour, Stranger Sings, by Jonathan Hogue, returns to Southwark Playhouse Borough for Christmas.

The five-star sci-fi spoof is a “wild, irreverent twist” of the hit Netflix series.

The audience is invited to enjoy a night of indulgent pop culture references, heavy synth, poor parents and dancing demogorgons, with a 1980s’ backdrop.

Tickets are £25 standard, £22 concession, all previews £16, family-of-four tickets £70. The show is on from 13th December until 6th January at Borough SE1.