ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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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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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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