Scottish Ballet’s 'The Snow Queen', created by artistic director Christopher Hampson and designer Lez Brotherston to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary, has plenty of surface sparkle but lacks some adventurous spirit. By way of explaining the titular character’s frosty evildoing, Hampson and Brotherston have chopped and changed Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale to include a spat between the Snow Queen (Constance Devernay) and her bored sister, the Summer Princess (Kayla-Maree Tarantolo). Hoping to find true love, the latter pops on a cardie and heads to the human world disguised as a pickpocket, where she encounters childhood sweethearts Gerda (Bethany Kingsley-Garner) and Kai (Andrew Peasgood). Many magical ice-shards later, Gerda gets her bloke back, while the reunited sisters dispatch themselves into a convenient sinkhole upstage.
Actors:
Constance Devernay, Bethany Kingsley-Garner, Andrew Peasgood, Kayla-Maree Tarantolo
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