Fairytales, Fables & Other Assorted Nonsense

Assembleth Theatre

Producer

About the show

Fairy tales across the land live in fear. Fear for their lives, fear for their freedom and, most importantly, fear for their turnips. Why you ask? Because Little Red Riding Hood has taken control. The once sweet and innocent girl now rules The Fairy tale Woods with an iron fist and a mob of incompetent wolves. The woods need someone brave, someone bold, and someone daring to free them from this oppression. Unfortunately, they’ve only got Susan. Faced with tax collecting big bad wolves, radical talking pigs, and smorgasbords of poisoned fruit, Susan must try desperately to find a way to help the forest. If she starts a revolution along the way, well that can’t hurt anyone can it?

Susan must team up with familiar favourites from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella and more to keep the literal wolves from the door. Ridiculous mishaps, outlandish love stories and a barnyard full of animals that won’t stop talking await in this riotous, rebellious comedy from Assembleth Theatre.

Fairytales, Fables & Other Assorted Nonsense is supported by Art Council England and Barbican Theatre Plymouth & their young people.

About

On this show we were delighted to bring in an excellent creative team from the South West and allow a 6 month R&D process at the Barbican Theatre Plymouth with their young people. This meant that the voices of young people shone through the show, utilising Battersea Arts Centre agency scale to ensure an equal share of the agency of the production.

Fairytales, Fables & Other Assorted Nonsense ran for 32 performances touring across venues including Barbican Theatre Plymouth, Exeter Phoenix, Dorchester Arts, Farnham Maltings, East Riding Theatre, Pocklington Arts Centre, Taunton Brewhouse, The Poly Falmouth and more.