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Snow White
- Tour & Scottish Premiere.
Part of the 2003 Bank Of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival.
Director - Markus Keller-Rottmeire.
Costume - Britta Hagen.
Cast - here.
Company - Theater Sgaramusch
from Switzerland.
Times, Dates and Places - here
Seen to review at Tuesday 27 May at Traverse Theatre Edinburgh.
Run Time - 35 mins.
Suggested Age - 10 + years. In English.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Just too haphazard & muddling.
It's the well known story but with different touches told by three actors,
one with a cello, one with an accordion and one with a bright pink karaoke
machine. While the cellist really only plays her instrument in a conventional
way, the accordionist gets lots of sound out of his instrument, while
the third creates snow storms, wind and more using her machine's microphone.
This Snow White is a bit of a hair twiddler but what gets her expelled
from her family home and nearly killed is that even the stepmother's dog
admits Snow White is the prettiest of all. The family huntsman John who
spares Snow White then travels to escape, sends sad but amusing letters
about his jobs and experiences. Snow White finally finds herself staying
with the seven dwarves in the Land of Sevens, but thankfully cleaning
their home never happens.
Sgaramusch's version has some amusing and more adult hard edged touches,
you feel the longing between Snow White and John. Unfortunately it wanders
all over the place adding in totally unrelated snippets of tales, the
men who went up Ben Nevis including Travis is particularly weird. Was
it an attempt to throw in a bit because they were in Scotland? If so they
were wrongly advised, the story if it exists isn't well known.
At only 35 minutes Snow White should have past too quickly, but it felt
about 15 minutes longer as you tried to hold a coherent story in your
head. The material's inconsequential moments had me wondering if there
had been a break down in translation, I overheard a young girl remark
" Too haphazard and muddling". I agree. And it's such a strange
length 35 mins, why didn't the company allow themselves a longer performance
to allow the story's meanders to flow into the main stream of the story.
© Thelma Good 27 May 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
More
info and reviews on the annual Bank of Scotland Children's International
Theatre Festival.
Cast - Nora Vonder Mühll, Stefan Colombo
and Désirée Senn.
Scottish Tour of Snow White.
At the Traverse Edinburgh 0131 228 1404.
27 May 5.30pm & 7.15pm
Thur 29 May 5.30pm & 7.15pm
30 May 5.30pm & 7.15pm
Also tours to North Edinburgh Arts Centre 0131 315 2151.
Public performances there on 31 May at 5:30pm & 7pm.
and to The Shetlands 2 - 6 June 01595 692114.
End of Scottish Tour.
Theatre Editor, Thelma
Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com
Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the
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