Cirencester’s The Barn Theatre have announced the full cast and creative team for the premiere of the musical play The Brothers Grimm Present: Cinderella, which has been written by Alan Pollock.

The production, which is based on the folk tale of Cinderella from the Brothers Grimm’s Grimms' Fairy Tales, was originally planned to debut in Winter 2020 as part of the theatre’s 2020 Built by Barn Season but was postponed due to the pandemic. It will be Alan Pollocks third production to debut as the Barn Theatre following 2019’s A Christmas Carol starring Patrick Ryecart and 2020’s Peter Pan starring Waylon Jacobs.

It will be directed by Francesca Goodridge, the first recipient of the Carne Traineeship for Directors in Wales at Theatre Clwyd and co-founder of The Far Away Plays - an online play reading company that champions Welsh and Wales based creatives. Her credits include BARK! The Musical and Adam, Eve and Steve. She also directed two episodes of the Barn Theatre and Aaron Sidwell’s Shakespeare in lockdown digital series Bard From The Barn; directing Natasha Barnes and Georgina Squires in Season two and Lorna Fitzgerald in Season three.

Tarek Merchant is behind the music for the show, he has created a range of new scores for theatre productions, including The Prince and the Pauper, First Encounters: The Merchant of Venice at the as well as composing the songs for Marcy Kahan’s BBC 4 radio play Big In Samoa. He is also an Associate Artist for the Watermill Theatre.

The full actor-musician cast of the production are: Jesse Ashby of Mr Tipsy’s Down the Hatch, as Jakob, The Father, Regent, Scarecrow and Stepmother, Matthew Romain, Holes, as Wilhelm, Tom and Prince, Tanya Bridgeman, Shoes to Fill, Off West End Commendation, as Cinderella.

The show will run at the Cotswold venue from 16 November 2021 – 2 January 2022.

Iwan Lewis, Barn CEO and Artistic director said of the show: “Wilhelm and Jakob are the ultimate odd couple. They are the Brothers Grimm. It’s late and the brothers are arguing. A young girl appears, Cinderella and we are launched into a tale of kindness, cruelty, music and magic, slippers, pumpkins, and wolves. Blending song, illusion, and puppetry this production will be Cinderella as you’ve always known it but never seen before.”

Tickets are now on sale from £11.50, with family ticket deals and school offerings available at barntheatre.org.uk.