Fairytales Gone Bad, A Joseph Coelho production presented by Half Moon Theatre

Fairytales Gone Bad, 	A Joseph Coelho production presented by Half Moon Theatre

Fairytales Gone Bad: Grannylocks / The Monstrous Duckling
a Joseph Coehlo production for 3+
and
Fairytales Gone Bad: Zombie-rella / Blood-red Hood
a Joseph Coehlo production for 6+

Award winning performance poet and Joseph Coelho has a long theatrical background as a performer and playwright for some of the UK’s top children’s theatre companies including Polka, Unicorn, Oily Cart and Half Moon. His poetry has appeared in many anthologies, and TV including CBeebies’ Rhyme Rocket. He co-founded Word Pepper Theatre in 2012 which enjoyed great success with two shows for young people, The Poetry Joe Show and Pop-Up Flashback in partnership with Half Moon. His debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules is published by Frances Lincoln for which he won the prestigious CLPE Children’s Poetry Award 2015.

Half Moon is the UK’s leading small-scale young people’s venue and touring company. It is a local organisation with a national remit, committed to supporting artists and young people at every stage of their creative development. Working from our base in East London, we specialise in new writing and artform development, acting as a gateway organisation that provides pathways for progression and experimentation. Our wide-ranging programme reaches 49,000 people annually and engages those who are often excluded from arts activity. Our activity includes a season of professional plays for young audiences, national touring productions and an extensive creative learning programme, including seven youth theatres. Half Moon is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England and receives regular funding from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Fairytales Gone Bad is one of several productions that form part of Half Moon Presents, the producing arm of Half Moon, supporting the promotion and development of theatre for young audiences at a national and international level.

Fairytales Gone Bad: Grannylocks / The Monstrous Duckling
for 3+
A father returns home with a magical cloak. A cloak that hides a story…

Did you know that the ugly duckling was never ugly? He was truly monstrous! Or that Goldilocks was never a tale about a little girl. It was always a tale about a granny – a mean, thieving granny who has plans for something quite nasty.

Fairytales Gone Bad: Zombie-rella / Blood-red Hood
for 6+
A mysterious vaudeville storyteller with a magical top-hat and coat unwinds the true stories behind the happily ever afters, which are maybe not as charming as you remember!

Discover the true tale of Cinderella, where she dies and becomes a zombie and falls in love with a vampire prince. And of course, there’s the true tale of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf-hunter who never leaves her home without her shield, axe and blood-red stained cloak.