Literally Fantastical was commissioned by the British Library as a response to their Alice exhibition. We led audiences on a journey to experience a sequence stories on a theme of the fantastical, the fabulous and the fairy tale. Ross Sutherland performed his twisted retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with all nouns shifted 23 places in the dictionary, accompanied by old film footage, in the Writers and Scholars Room. A site-specific audio story about a disgruntled bibliophile pigeon by Ellen Wiles was played as an installation on the roof terrace with the audience gathered around a book sculpture. We transformed the Manuscripts Reading Room into an enchanted forest, where Maeve Leahy performed fairy tale-themed songs interacting with dancer Rob Hesp, and audiences collectively performed a traditional tale. Emma Jane Unsworth performed a new story about a jogger's encounter with a vampire from one distant balcony to another across the chasm of the Library's main atrium, via silent disco headphones. Timothy Allsop performed Neil Gaiman's story about memory, writing and imagination: 'The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury'. Adjoa Andoh performed Angela Carter's feminist gothic classic, Wolf-Alice, with live illustration by Gabi Froden. Grace Chilton performed the tea party scene from Alice with vintage illustrations. Ark also co-curated the Library's Fairy Tales and Wonderlands Late, which art film maker Sebastian Buerkner, book artist Chloe Spicer, and postcard poet Michelle Madsen.