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Snow Queen, The--Dundee Rep

Gerda and Kai are best friends, they do everything together but when a splinter of glass from the Snow Queen’s evil mirror enters Kai’s eye and heart, his soul seems lost forever. Kai becomes intoxicated by her enchanting powers and follows her to her icy palace.

Poor Gerda is lost without him and, fearing that he has disappeared forever, sets out on an epic journey to save her best friend.  Who will she meet along the way? Read more …

Join Gerda as she travels through snow filled forests, ice cold rivers and freezing winds to save her best friend Kai from the grips of the evil Snow Queen.

Mike Kenny is one of the UK’s leading playwrights specialising in young people’s theatre. He has adapted many children’s stories including the award winning The Railway Children (Waterloo train Station) and The Little Mermaid, which was performed at the Rep a few years ago.

Join us this winter for an enchanting tale of adventure, friendship and discovery for the whole family.


The critical consensus

Director Jemima Levick weaves a fascinating interpretation of Mike Kenny’s version of the Hans Christian Andersen tale.

Peter Cargill, The Stage, 10/12/2012

As Emily Winter's creepily seductive Snow Queen pounds the stage on stilts, leaving Martin McBride's Kai mesmerised, we are so gripped by the adventure that the merry, Slava's Snowshow-style finale almost seems like a distraction.

****(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 11/12/2012

Jolly but slightly unsatisfying.

***(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, 13/12/2012

There may be no men in frocks or singalongs here but what Jemima Levick’s production lacks in traditional panto mores it more than makes up for in atmosphere and urgent storytelling.

****(*)Allan Radcliffe, The List, 13/12/2012

Fails to deliver, in what is in the end up a lukewarm disappointment.

Alan Chadwick, STV, 14/12/2012

Where and when?

Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee from Tuesday December 4, 2012, until Saturday January 5, 2013. More info: www.dundeereptheatre.co.uk

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