'Vanessa Bates' play is full of unlikely fairy tale damsels in distress bleeding, coarse, filled with rage, hope and hot desire... relentless energy and humour' (The Guardian)

Fairy-tales reworked, funny, furious and fantastic, as tales of the marginalised. Original fairy-tales were about bravado, fortune, destiny and courage. But always, watching from the edges, were the quiet ones. The bit characters. The weary mothers, the ugly sisters, the irrelevant queens, the grandmothers. In The Magic Hour, they get their chance to shine. From beach shacks and caravan parks, in Housing Commission towers and old school discos, in backyard gardens ... Welcome one and all to 'the twilight hour, the dreaming hour, The Magic Hour'.

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