Past Productions

ONCE UPON A DRAGON

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May 22nd – May 28th 2007 - Edinburgh

Once Upon A Dragon – a fairy tale woodland adventure for ages 5+ presented by Grid Iron in association with the Bank of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival and supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

"I still have to eat a hundred buns and the witch mustn't see that I'm growing... "

I still have to find a wolf with grandmother inside it...

and search everywhere for a girl who fits the glass slipper...

and I've got to be back before twelve o'clock...

and buy a white horse for two...

and wait....

I still have to wait for ages and ages...

but I do so long to be kissed by a princess"

A glass slipper. A trail of feathers marking the path back through a dark wood. Rapunzel's plaits fall from a high window. A red cape and a basket of fruit. And, of course, a dragon.

Grid Iron's Once Upon A Dragon, was the UK premiere of Pauline Mol and Moniek Merkx’s sophisticated play for five years and up - their youngest audience to date. Set in an animated wood of twists and turns, the play, in a lyrical and passionate translation by Rina Vergano, accepts that the Grimm stories are the currency of a young audience and celebrates the way young children play with familiar fairy stories. More dextrous, more playful, more 'post-modern' than older children or adults, the young mind finds pleasure in re-ordering these powerful narratives.