The Little Match Girl (and Other Happier Tales)
Tue 13 Mar to Sat 17 Mar 2018
PLAYHOUSE
£30 - £10
Emma Rice’s "exquisite" (Daily Telegraph) production comes to the Playhouse following its critically acclaimed premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe.
As our destitute heroine struggles to survive, she strikes her matches to keep warm. Each match will conjure a new story, a new vision, and we will hold her hand as we tumble down the rabbit hole together. Inspired by the beautiful and devastatingly sad Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Little Match Girl, and combining Andersen’s other tales, The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor’s New Clothes and Thumbelina, The Little Matchgirl (and Other Happier Tales) reveals a spellbinding world of magic and mystery.
Steeped in the metaphor and meaning that runs through the veins of Andersen’s enduring stories, this will be a night to delight, transport and surprise. For adults and brave children alike, expect music, puppetry, dark magic... and perhaps some modern truths that we would all rather remain hidden.
★★★★
“An out-and-out triumph. Endlessly inventive, gloriously silly, poignant, topical, edifying”
WhatsOnStage.com
A Shakespeare’s Globe and Bristol Old Vic Co-Production
Company
Writer Hans Christian Andersen and Other Storytellers
Writer and Co-Adaptor Joel Horwood
Director and Co-Adaptor Emma Rice
Designer Vicki Mortimer
