CLASSIC PLAYS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Every year, we perform our own adaptations of classic Christmas stories during the festive season, and adaptations of classic texts during the summer term, which tour into Primary Schools.
Michael Whitmore adapts each play directly from the original text, producing faithful re-tellings of much loved classics and Gideon Escott writes and arranges the music for each show.
We always come with a full set, lights, costumes and music to create a truly theatrical and magical experience for all and during the summer months we can even perform outside.
THE SNOW QUEEN
"Now then! We will begin...
When the story is done you shall know a great deal more than you do now"
The Snow Queen
Kay, and his dear friend, Gerda, are devoted to each other but one day a splinter from a demon's mirror lodges in Kay’s heart, turning him cruel and cold – and soon the Snow Queen passes, whisking Kay away to her icy palace in the North Pole.
No one knows what’s happened to him, but the heartbroken Gerda decides she must set out to find him. A long and dangerous journey ensures and she eventually reaches the Snow Queen’s palace. But can her love save Kay and melt his cold heart?
find out in Michael Whitmore’s charming adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen Christmas classic.
SHOW INFORMATION
The Snow Queen has been adapted directly from the original book and is a Christmas play rather than Pantomime with a full set, songs, music and projection to create a magical, theatrical experience in your school hall.
You can opt for a morning or afternoon session, and if you'd like two showings we can either perform a morning and afternoon performance or we can perform back to back shows as long as we have 20 minutes between shows to reset.
The play is designed to appeal to the whole Primary age range and there is music and songs throughout to keep everyone entranced.
Running time: 60 mins
Set up time: 60 mins needed before and about 45 minutes afterwards
Performance area: 5m x5m. Pupils sit in front in rows, not in the round.
Quantum Theatre is proud to be one of the foremost theatre groups performing in schools in the UK