Festive Show 2024: Hansel & Gretel Cast Announcement! 1

    Hansel & Gretel: Cast Announcement

    We are excited to ANNOUNCE the fabulous cast of our Upcoming In-House Production, Hansel & Gretel.

    This year, we’re teaming up with the award-winning New International Encounter (NIE) for the festive show, Hansel & Gretel. Prepare to be whisked away to a world of wonder as our Factory Theatre transforms into a mystical land.

    NIE has enchanted audiences with their takes on The Snow Queen (2022), Snow White (2019), and Beauty and The Beast (2017). Now, they’re returning with a magical twist on this Brothers Grimm classic—a spectacular reimagining of their very first family festive show.


    About the Show

    In the middle of a snow covered forest sits a tiny cottage unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. It’s roof is made of gingerbread, the door is made of boiled sweets and the windows of clear sugar glaze, but what’s inside…?

    Step into the forest with us and find out!

    Our ensemble cast of five actor/musicians adapt this classic fairytale with a blend of original live music, puppetry and storytelling. This show is a lovely mix of music, magic and joy, which we can’t wait to share with families.

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    Meet the Cast

    Martin Bonger – Nicholas

    Joey Hickman – Nigel

    Stefanie Mueller – Gretel

    Abayomi Oniyide – Hansel

    Samantha Sutherland – Lady


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    Martin is a Bristol based theatre maker, whose work includes The Collision of Things, Fat Man, Messenger and This Crossing. He is a collaborator with Simon Day and together they made Keepers, There Shall be Fireworks & Engine Break. He regularly creates work with other theatre companies including Green Ginger, Pins and Needles and Complicité. He worked on five shows with NIE. He has worked on a number of Radio 4 plays including the recent drama The Poor Olympics.

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    Joey trained on the Actor Musicianship course at Rose Bruford. He is delighted to be back with NIE this year, having previously worked with them on The Snow Queen and Snow White.

    Acting credits include: Brassed Off (Theatre By The Lake & tour), Brief Encounter (SJT & Tour), Assassins (Watermill Theatre), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Watermill Theatre), A Christmas Carol (SJT), Romeo & Juliet and The School for Scandal (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory), Cinderella: A Fairytale (Tobacco Factory), Made In Dagenham (Queens Theatre & New Wolsey), Oliver! (Watermill Theatre), The BFG and I Was A Rat! (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour).

    Joey is also a Musical Director, Composer and Arranger with credits in London’s West End (The Comedy About A Bank Robbery) as well as the Old Vic, Leicester Curve and Watermill Theatre.

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    Born in Switzerland, Stefanie studied at the International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She was founder member and Artistic associate of Hoipolloi Theatre for 25 years, working as an actress, director and set-designer.

    TV includes: Homeland, Killing Eve, The Crown, War of the Worlds 2 & Lockerbie.

    Recent Theatre work includes: The Snow Queen & Snow White with NIE; Amt Für Zuwart und Gegenkunft, We Know Not What We May Be & Love Letters for Metis Arts; Unconditional & MotherEarth with THisEgg

    For more info please visit www.stefaniemueller.co.uk

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    Abayomi is an Actor who graduated in Drama & Physical Theatre from St Mary’s University in 2017. He has appeared in numerous stage productions with NIE such as Snow Queen (2022) Macbeth (2023) and Hamlet (2023). He has also appeared on a TV series Queenie (2024). Abayomi is also an active Producer in a production company called Walk With Walker.

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    Samantha trained at Rose Bruford College.

    With NIE – I Will Be Everything (Nordland Theatre, Norway), Snow White (Polka Theatre), Beauty & the Beast (Tobacco Factory, New York), Snow Queen (Cambridge Junction, Tobacco Factory and Film).

    Theatre credits include – Rapunzel (the Egg), Emilia (Vaudeville). 84 Charing Cross Road (Cambridge Arts Theatre), The Recruiting Officer (Salisbury Playhouse), Arabian Nights (Watermill), Oliver Twist (Bolton Octagon), Falcon’s Malteser (New Old Friends).

    Samantha also works as a puppeteer and writer. You can find her children’s story book The Adventures of Top and Imm in the Little Angel Theatre’s online Shop.


    Creative Team

    Director Alex Byrne

    Assistant Director Megan Vaughan- Thomas

    Production Designer Stefanie Mueller

    Lighting Designer Trui Malten

    Composer Elliot Davis

    Musical Director Joey Hickman

    Sound Designer Greg Hall

    Movement Director Kasia Zaremba-Byrne

    Story Consultant Rina Vergano

    Producer Ruth Carter-Moore

    Stage & Production Manager Niamh Percy

    Production Consultant Ash Day

    Understudy Cover: Jesse Meadows and Jack Orozco-Morrison

    Previous Cast Unai Lopez de Armentia, Rew Lowe, Mia Hawk, Elliot Davis, David Osmond

    Musical collaboration by the cast.


    Hansel & Gretel: Cast Announcement

    NIE’s shows are always a highlight of the Christmas period but this one was really exceptional, a beautiful balance of everything you want in a Christmas performance

    Hansel & Gretel Audience Member, Cambridge 2023

    Hansel & Gretel: Cast Announcement

    It was fantastic! It had such a beautiful joy & level of fun that only live theatre can create, and I left feeling heartened and festive.

    Hansel & Gretel Audience Member, Cambridge 2023

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    Full of delights, emotion and social commentary

    Cambridge Independent

    Hansel & Gretel: Cast Announcement

    It’s very clever

    World Stage UK

     

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