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Eoin O'Callaghan

Saturday Drama: White Snow

White Snow

05/01/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, White Snow

Faced with an upstart stepdaughter, the queen is forced into decisive and deadly action.

Faced with an upstart stepdaughter and a sterile marriage, the Queen determines to make her King take notice by removing the object of his affection.

Faced with an upstart stepdaughter and lied to by her King about the real object of his affection, his unnaturally perfect daughter, the Queen is forced into decisive and deadly action. In this re-imagining of the Grimm brother's fairy-tale, we find ourselves at one with a fun loving and light hearted Queen, who having been wooed by an emotionally arrested king, soon finds that her main rival is his somewhat spooky and unhealthily translucent daughter, Snow White. It isn't clear what hold this eerily passive child has over the King but the implication is that the trauma of being cuckolded by his first wife, has been transformed into the myth of a flawless child - a child who keenly aware of her power over him, determines that nothing, especially not a mere stepmother is going to come between them. By any reasonable assessment of the situation, Snow White has to die...but will she?

Dramatised by Frances Byrnes
Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.

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