Shake & Stir's deliciously twisted new production might ruffle some feathers.
And that's the point.
GRIMM: Tales From The Brothers Grimm, by revealing the twisted, unsettling and often hilarious truths beneath the fairy tales we thought we knew, wants to provoke a response from the audience.
To make them think.
"These stories have fascinated us for years," Shake & Stir artistic director Nick Skubij said.
"They're stories people think they know, but here, the audience will see something a bit different. Because of this, the morals, the brutality, and the humanity feel startlingly new - and relevant. GRIMM lets some hard truths rise to the surface."
Nelle Lee, co-artistic director at Shake & Stir who adapted stories from Grimm's Fairy Tales with director Daniel Evans, describes the production as "a little bit naughty and a little bit dark".
"We definitely don't shy away from the darkness of the fairytales. We flip the stories on their head and try to get to the essence of why the stories were told in the first place, and how society or humanity has changed since they were first told. Some things haven't changed as much as you might think," she says.
"The stories don't sit nicely alongside one another, they kind of bleed into each other's worlds. The characters intertwine and cross over and get in each other's way, in each other's stories."
Lee also acts in GRIMM, playing Little Red Riding Hood, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, "and a bunch of other little cameos".
"This is old-school storytelling and theatre-making, but the costumes by Paul McCann are luxe and extravagant, the sound design is full, and a lot of work has gone into the lighting," she says.
"So many productions these days rely heavily on screens and technical cleverness - which I love to watch too, I think there is definitely room for both - but this is very much a human-led, actor-driven show.
"With a show like this the audience really is the last piece of the puzzle; depending on what the audience is like, the cast can respond in the space in real time. Every theatre is different, every audience is different."
