Hans Christian Andersen’s The Fir Tree adaptation comes to Barnet

How It Ended are bringing a festive retelling of The Fir Tree, the Hans Christian Andersen story of a little fir tree who is desperate to grow up and longs for adventure, to artsdepot this December. 

The Fir Tree’s three person cast features: Denzel Baidoo (Bukayo Saka in Dear England, National Theatre’s West End transfer; This Might Not Be It, Bush Theatre), with Samuel Heron (The Mousetrap, St. Martin's Theatre, West End; The Flick, National Theatre) and Loren O’Dair (Once The Musical, West End; The Tempest, Pleasance Theatre). 

How It Ended’s adaption will feature live music and song, live foley sound effects, and puppetry, to tell the story of the young fir tree and its discovery of the power of friendship, the importance of living in the present, and other moral lessons on the 180th anniversary of the book’s original publication.