The+Little+Match+Girl


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Senior students have had their first taste of theatre in the Allen Centre with our Christmas production
====of this famous, thought-provoking fairytale, [|The Little Match Girl] by [|Hans Christian Andersen]. ====

Scroll down to view stills from the performance...
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**The Script** and **The Music**
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//and it's nearly dark...//

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//Artist: Elizabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Denmark, 1862//
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//other side of the world....//
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The Set: A winter street in Russia a long time ago...
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//It's Christmas Eve, the snow is falling and it's nearly dark...//
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Lamplighters arrive to light the street lamps...
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A busy street scene develops in mime....
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//Do you understand?//
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//I lost my slippers. Please help me find them.//
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//any shoes//...
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//We don't need matches! Get away from us!//
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//customers all day!"//
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//your wishes come true...//
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// fingers a little.... //
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//.//
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//of a roaring fire..//
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//Inside she could see a table...//
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//table...//
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//bright as stars...//
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//radiant and with such an expression of love...//
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//away when the match burns out...//
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down on the ramp and sleeps...
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The Star Dancer enters....
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The Angel... warmly, softly, slowly, dreamily...
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//cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety - they were with God.//
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//came and light filtered over the cold hard snow...//.
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//smiling, frozen to death on the Eve before Christmas.//
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//dead.//...
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//Grandmother she had entered the joy of a new year.//
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