This May, step into the magical and twisted world of your favourite Brothers Grimm fairy tales, in an exciting production of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical; ‘Into the Woods’. The Teatru Manoel stage will transform into a fairy tale forest in this production of ‘Into the Woods’ directed by Lucienne Camilleri, with musical direction by Ryan Paul Abela and production design by Matthew Cassar.

‘Into the Woods’ is a 1987 multiple-award winning musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. This production of ‘Into the Woods’ boasts a formidable cast, with Dorothy Bezzina as the witch, Joel Parnis as the baker, Rachel Fabri as the baker’s wife, Thomas Camilleri and Ryan Grech as the Princes, Gianluca Cilia as Jack, Nadia Vella as Cinderella, and Stephen Oliver as the narrator, amongst many other talented performers.

“I was introduced to Sondheim a number of years ago when my son travelled to the UK to pursue his studies in musical theatre and drew me into this wonderful world that is Sondheim, an incredible playwright who puts extraordinary music to text,” director Lucienne Camilleri said. “Into the Woods is no exception, and in this musical we are propelled into an etude of the human psyche and its obsessive desire to want what seems unattainable only to find that we didn’t really desire it after all. True to life, we are drawn to make impulsive decisions that don’t always turn out for the best. But in making mistakes we discover different strengths. We all desire fairy tale lives but when push comes to shove, those very fairy tales can fling us into the deepest abyss of deceit and uncertainty. Sondheim then poses the question – is there a way out?”