Hansel & Gretel is written! — well actually, it’s somewhere between Draft 4 and Draft 5 — and memorized!

I’ve put the pen down (so to speak), and my director Jenny Mercein and I have started rehearsals for the Friends & Family tour in November.

This is all prep to get it in shape for Edinburgh Fringe, next August! (2026)

I don’t own a set of medieval figurines for working out the blocking (I mean, it is a one-man show, yes, but I need the blocking in my head). A chess board will do — and as a matter of trivia, chess had become popular all over Europe, easily 300 years before THIS story, which I’ve set in 1317.

So here we are. Not to give away any spoilers — everyone knows that Hansel & Gretel make it home — but here’s the scene. And how we get there is, for now, my little secret.

You’ll be surprised, I promise. On the way, there are traces of Bergman, Proust, and even another fairy tale.

I’d love to have you come see the show! Follow me on Instagram @christianHegeStoryteller.