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The Snow Queen Play Analysis
For my play critique I went to Sunnyslope High School to see their production of The Snow Queen. All in all the theme of this play can be seen as love. Gerda expresses about every single scene how she loves Kai and will do anything to get him back. This play sounded extremely well put on, and then I saw it and wasn’t impressed even slightly.

To start off the play Grandma, Gerda, and Kai sit around the house until the kids decide they want to play outside in the snow. Grandma tells the kids about the snow Queen when they ask if the snowflakes have a ruler. The Snow queen appears to hear Kai say he will melt her in a boiling pot and throws shards of “the mirror” into his eye and his heart. The broken mirror shards have the power to cause
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