Whiter Than Snow, by Mike Kenny, Graeae Theatre Company, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, March 7In a war-torn country members of the Franz family are struggling to tour their latest production - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
David Green
Whiter Than Snow, by Mike Kenny, Graeae Theatre Company, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, March 7
In a war-torn country members of the Franz family are struggling to tour their latest production - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
All is not well because the leading lady has eloped with the prince and there are only four available dwarfs.
Frieda, daughter of the family, is begging to play Snow White but her father, Otto, suddenly finds the ideal actor - a beautiful young woman with a fantastic memory for lines. But is she, perhaps, a little too perfect in a world where science has a sinister presence?
Graeae's quick-witted, challenging and uncompromising production is packed with dark humour and shrewd observations.
Just as the audience thinks it can - after an early jolt - relax and enjoy a comic fairy tale, uncomfortable truths are aired and difficult issues examined about our attitudes to people who are different from the “norm”.
This was a true ensemble performance; thought provoking, brilliantly conceived and enacted with the aid of an ingenious, multi-purpose set.
David Green
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