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The Snow Queen
Polly Lister a marvel in solo-show version of Hans Christian Andersen classic
OUTSTANDING: Polly Lister in The Snow Queen
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STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
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Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
A POWERHOUSE in its own right, The Snow Queen is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s longest and most elemental stories.
It takes the reader on a journey of discovery in which good and evil tear each other apart but love wins through in the end.
The masterpiece of a wild imagination, it explores childhood terror and concludes with the Biblical exhortation: “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
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