Your mission, should you choose to accept: With only one week, adapt a randomly-chosen Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale into a compelling stage production.

Such was the challenge for the team over at Rorschach Theater, which will premiere its season-opening stunt on Saturday.

Last Sunday, 40 D.C. artists, many of them company members, were charged with the responsibility of turning tales like “Hansel & Gretel” into something we’d like to see on stage. Norman Allen, Randy Baker, James Hesla, Jacqueline E. Lawton, Anne M. McCaw and Gwyddion Suilebhan were given the charge of writing the tales, which will star a number of faces familiar to theatergoers.

So are we talking faithful re-tellings of our treasured childhood stories like “Cinderella”? Or Little Red Riding Hood re-imagined as a D.C. hipster? Neither, from the sound of things. The Rorschach Theater Blog warns us that “Rorschach is not Walt Disney,” and that we should expect tales that are “dirty, raw and sexy.” Plus, from the sound of things, we’re going to be treated to some of the lesser known myths, from “Hans My Hedgehog” to “The Devil’s Sooty Brother.” If you don’t want to be surprised before you go into the show, the blog has daily dispatches from the plays’ creative staff that talk about their experiences this week.

There will be two shows on Sept. 8, at 8 and 10 p.m. Tickets are available online for $10. If you’re not going to be around Saturday, wait till next year — the group plans to reprise the effort with a whole new group of stories and performers.

Editorial disclosure: DCist contributor Jason Linkins will appear in the production.