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Hans
Christian Andersen’ s classic tale ‘The Snow Queen’ will be adapted
for the stage by Philip Osment. This rich and haunting ‘coming of
age’ tale offers Storytellers a wonderful opportunity to create a
new piece of music theatre with fantastic visual opportunities. .
‘The Snow Queen’ is a complex story of how faith and love can
overcome evil. The splinters of an ancient, broken and evil looking
glass are in the air around us waiting to fly into an unsuspecting
eye. These shards of glass can turn a good heart into a lump of ice
- and a good person into a gift for the Snow Queen. The Snow Queen’s
bleak, empty, icy world is the home for people who have lost that
ability to love.
This is what happens to young Kai as he is seduced and kidnapped by
this icy queen. She kisses away his shivers and his heart virtually
becomes a block of ice. Kai’s friend, Gerda, takes off on a long
journey to find him. She encounters many different worlds on the
way; an enchanted flower garden; a flight through the Northern
Lights; the ice palace of the Snow Queen herself - a figure powerful
enough to 'tie all the winds of the world together'.
Gerda finally finds Kai in the Palace and as she sings a hymn to him
her tears fall on his chest and they thaw out his heart. The evil
splinter in his eye is washed away by his own tears. The two friends
return home as spring returns to the world. Kai and Gerda realise
that they are children no more and that ‘childhood’ is gone forever.
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