The Snow Queen
Based on the classic story by Hans Christen Andersen, written in 1845
Original script written for HYT in 1999 by Joan Leslie (1932 – 2018), the original HYT Tutor
Adapted by Di Mason in 2024
The Snow Queen is one of the longest and most famous of Hans Christen Andersen’s Tales. It is broken
up into seven short stories that together tell the tale of Gerda’s search for her best friend Kay. The
Snow Queen is fundamentally a story about good and evil. But what is most noteworthy about this
fairy tale is that the evil character at the centre of the story, namely the Snow Queen herself, doesn’t
get her comeuppance at the end of the tale. Nor does the Hobgoblin who created the mirror which
allowed Kay to be transformed in the first place. One of the reasons why Andersen’s fairy stories have
endured, perhaps, is that they have decidedly bittersweet ‘fairy tale endings’: the good may end
happily, but the bad don’t necessarily end unhappily.
Original script written for HYT in 1999 by Joan Leslie (1932 – 2018), the original HYT Tutor
Adapted by Di Mason in 2024
The Snow Queen is one of the longest and most famous of Hans Christen Andersen’s Tales. It is broken
up into seven short stories that together tell the tale of Gerda’s search for her best friend Kay. The
Snow Queen is fundamentally a story about good and evil. But what is most noteworthy about this
fairy tale is that the evil character at the centre of the story, namely the Snow Queen herself, doesn’t
get her comeuppance at the end of the tale. Nor does the Hobgoblin who created the mirror which
allowed Kay to be transformed in the first place. One of the reasons why Andersen’s fairy stories have
endured, perhaps, is that they have decidedly bittersweet ‘fairy tale endings’: the good may end
happily, but the bad don’t necessarily end unhappily.
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Stirling Community Theatre
9 Avenue Road, Stirling SA 5152
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