Reviews: The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen is a new adaptation of the well-known fairytale written by Hans Christian Andersen. It is a perfect adaptation for schools and would make a wonderful Christmas production with lots of opportunities for ensemble work, allowing you to make the production as big or small as you like. It is also a perfect script to explore around the Christmas period during drama lessons, to allow a festive feel whilst page to stage opportunities and key themes of hope, friendship and heroism.

I personally really enjoyed that the play began with the age-old classic line ‘Once upon a time’ – this screamed fairytale to me and I liked the way that the narration captured the past and the ‘battle of the seasons’. The detailed stage directions and narration by Mother Nature allow the reader to really visualise Eves’ vision for the play. This then leads seamlessly into children continuing telling the story as a ghost story and as the play progresses, we see the two worlds of the Snow Queen and the children meld together through clever dialogue.