When life is desperate, families are tested to destruction – and even trusted adults will betray the children who depend on ...

Though we admit that venturing as far as saying that the witch looks like a mix of Margaret Thatcher and the old Queen might ...

The famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm is told in Engelbert Humperdinck's ever-popular opera, Hansel and Gretel, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Show more The famous fairy tale by ...

Hansel (Ned Costello) and Gretel (Yasemin Özdemir) live in a village that has been turned to rubble. Their parents (Harry Hepple and a brilliant Beverly Rudd, grief sculpted into every line of ...

Hansel (Ned Costello), in tracksuit trousers and bobble hat, and Gretel (Yasemin Özdemir), sporting a sparkly pink My Little Pony top, live with their resolutely decent parents in a place beset ...

Written in droll rhyming verse (what else?), the Poet Laureate’s version of Hansel and Gretel is bookended by narration from a seen-it-all confectionary vendor (Jenni Maitland), whose grungy ...