Snow Queen, The (Abridged Version)
- Short Play, Drama, Adaptations (Literature)
- 17M or F
- ISBN: 9780573120305
An abridged version of Ron Nicol's popular full-length dramatisation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale.
Description
- Short Play
- Drama, Adaptations (Literature)
- 60 minutes
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
- Performance Group:
- High School/Secondary, Youth Groups, Elementary School / Primary
A dramatisation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Snow Queen” – not a version of Disney’s Frozen.
Gerda, a little girl, searches for her friend Kai when he’s kidnapped by the Snow Queen. With the help of a Crow and a Reindeer, Gerda travels to the Far North, where she confronts the Snow Queen in her ice palace and releases Kai.
A one-act version of Ron Nicol’s full-length adaptation.
Premiere USA production: 15 July 2017 – The Junior Intern Company, Barn Playhouse, New London, New Hampshire
Characters
- Casting: 17M or F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
(in order of speaking)
FIRST TROLL
SECOND TROLL
THIRD TROLL
OLD TROLL
GERDA
KAY
GRANDMOTHER
SNOW QUEEN
CROW
FIRST ROBBER
SECOND ROBBER
THIRD ROBBER
OLD HAG
ROBBER GIRL
REINDEER
LAPP WOMAN
FINN WOMAN
SNOW QUEEN’S ICE ATTENDANTS (non-speaking)
There are 17 speaking characters, with possibilities for doubling, trebling or even quadrupling of roles – Grandmother, the Old Hag, the Lapp Woman and/or the Finn Woman could all be played by the same person, for example. There can be any number of trolls, robbers and Ice Attendants. Several characters can be either male or female, but as there isn’t a gender-neutral pronoun in English “he” has been used throughout and should be changed where necessary.
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A dramatisation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Snow Queen” – not a version of Disney’s Frozen. A one-act version of Ron Nicol’s full-length adaptation. |
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