tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal present
Snow Child
by Emma Reeves
Inspired by Arthur Ransome’s adaptation of The Little Daughter of the Snow
Touring nationally and internationally from October 2015 – March 2016
For everyone over 3
Set in a wintery landscape, where the snow foxes, wolves and bears hide among the trees, we tell you a magical story about family, love and the power of dreams.
Watching the village children play in the snow, a lonely couple yearn for a child of their own. They build a small figure from the ice and snow, and wish very, very hard… until the strength of their longing brings the magical snow child to life before their eyes!
She’s a girl like no other. As she dances in the wild frost-filled landscape and talks with the animals, she brings joy, fun and laughter to the whole village. But it’s not easy, bringing up a wild daughter of the blizzards and the wind. As the seasons turn, and winter gives way to spring and summer, will the Snow Child and her parents find their “happily ever after” ?
tutti frutti are thrilled to bring you writer Emma Reeves’ new play following her huge success with her adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather (West End) and her TV triumphs; Tracy Beaker and the Dumping Ground as well as her new up and coming show Eve.
With atmospheric music by Ollie Birch, beautiful movement by Joanne Bernard and an inspired design brought to you by Kate Bunce, this promises to be a winter wonderland of poignant, inventive storytelling to enchant children and families.
tutti frutti never fails to create inspired and imaginative work and whether you are 5 or 50, you will always enjoy their shows. – Yorkshire Times 2014
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Date & Time | Venue | Address |
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3rd Oct 2015 11.30; 2.30 |
Arc |
Dovecot Street, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1LL
To book tickets: 01642 525199
www.arconline.co.uk |
5th Oct 2015 10.20; 1.20 |
Shine |
Closed schools performance |
10th Oct 2015 |
Ilkley Literature Festival |
To book tickets: 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk |
11th Oct 2015 |
Albany Theatre |
Douglas Way, Deptford, London, SE8 4AG To book tickets: 020 8692 4446 www.thealbany.org.uk |
17th Oct 2015 11.00 |
Loughborough Town Hall |
Market Place, Loughborough, LE11 3EB To book tickets: 01509 231914 http://www.loughboroughtownhall.co.uk/ |
21st Oct 2015 11.00; 6.00 |
Driochead Arts Centre |
Stockwell Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland To book tickets: 041 983 3946 www.droichead.com |
23rd Oct 2015 9.30; 12.00 |
Roscommon Arts Centre |
Circular Road, Roscommon, Ireland To book tickets: +353 (0)90 66 25 824 roscommonartscentre.ie/ |
24th Oct 2015 12.00; 3.00 |
Siamsa Tire Theatre |
Town Park, Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland To book tickets: 00 353 66 7123055 www.siamsatire.com |
27th Oct 2015 11.00; 2.00 |
Lancaster Arts |
Great Hall Complex, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW
To book tickets: 01524 594151 Visiting family information is here. www.lancasterarts.org |
29th Oct 2015 |
Burnley Youth Theatre |
Queens Park Road, Burnley, BB10 3LB To book tickets: 01282 458655 www.burnleyyouththeatre.com |
30th Oct 2015 2.00 |
The Carriageworks |
3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD To book tickets: 0113 376 0318 Visiting family information is here. www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk |
31st Oct 2015 11.00; 2.00 |
Half Moon |
43 White Horse Road, London, E1 0ND To book tickets: 020 7709 8900 www.halfmoon.org.uk |
7th Nov 2015 2.00 |
The Berry Theatre |
The Berry Theatre, Wildern Lane, Hedge End, Hampshire SO30 4EJ To book tickets: 023 8065 2333 Visiting family information is here. www.theberrytheatre.co.uk |
8th Nov 2015 3.00 |
Watermans |
40 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DS To book tickets: 020 8232 1010 Visiting family information is here. www.watermans.org.uk |
14th Nov 2015 11.00; 2.00 |
Lawrence Batley Theatre (lbt) |
Queen's Square, Queen Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2SP To book tickets: 01484 430528 www.lawrencebatleytheatre.co.uk |
15th Nov 2015 |
Jackson's Lane |
269a Archway Road, London, N6 5AA To book tickets: 020 8341 4421 www.jacksonslane.org.uk |
26th Nov 2015 10.30; 1.30 |
Otley Courthouse |
Courthouse Street, Otley, LS21 3AN To book tickets: 01943 467216 www.otleycourthouse.org.uk |
28th Nov 2015 |
The Brewery Arts Centre |
122a Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE To book tickets: 01539 725 133 www.breweryarts.co.uk |
29th Nov 2015 2.30 |
The Civic, Barnsley |
Hanson Street, Barnsley, S70 2HZ To book tickets: 01226 327 000 www.barnsleycivic.co.uk |
1st Dec 2015 - 5 Dec 2015; various times |
Arts Centre Washington |
Biddick Lane, Fatfield, Washington, NE38 8AB To book tickets: 0191 219 3455 www.artscentrewashington.co.uk |
8th Dec 2015 - 20 Dec 2015; various times |
Gulbenkian Theatre |
University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NB To book tickets: 01227 769075 Visiting family information is here. http://www.thegulbenkian.co.uk/ |
22nd Dec 2015 - 3 Jan 2016; 11.00 & 2.00 |
The Lowry |
Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ To book tickets: 0870 111 2020 www.thelowry.com |
16th Jan 2016 |
Lyric Hammersmith |
Lyric Square, King Street, London, W6 0QL To book tickets: 020 8741 6850 www.lyric.co.uk |
17th Jan 2016 11.00; 2.00 |
mac birmingham |
Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH To book tickets: 0121 446 3232 www.macbirmingham.co.uk |
25th Jan 2016 - 31 Jan 2016 |
KidsFest Hong Kong |
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1st Feb 2016 - 7 Feb 2016 |
KidsFest Singapore |
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13th Feb 2016 1.30; 4.00 |
Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre |
430 London Road, Southend on Sea, SS0 9LA.
To book tickets: 01702 351135 Visiting family information is here. www.southendtheatres.org.uk |
15th Feb 2016 |
Bridport Arts Centre |
South Street, Bridport, DT6 3NR.
To book tickets: 01308 427183 www.bridport-arts.com |
17th Feb 2016 |
Full House |
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18th Feb 2016 |
Redbridge Drama Centre |
London Borough of Redbridge, Churchfields, South Woodford, London E18 2RB To book tickets: 0208 708 8803 Visiting family information is here. www.redbridgedramacentre.co.uk |
19th Feb 2016 2.00; 20 Feb 2016 11.00; 2.00 |
Warwick Arts Centre |
The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL To book tickets: 024 7652 4524 www.warwickartscentre.co.uk |
23rd Feb 2016 - 5 Mar 2016; various times |
York Theatre Royal, Studio Theatre |
St Leonard's Pl, York YO1 7HD To book tickets: 01904 623 568 www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk Visiting family information is here. |
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Creative Team

Emma Reeves
Emma’s stage work includes the Olivier-nominated adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather, The Snow Child, Carrie’s War, Little Women and Cool Hand Luke. TV work includes The Worst Witch (Lead Writer) Eve (Lead Writer and co-creator) The Dumping Ground, Young Dracula, Tracy Beaker Returns, Belonging, The Murder of Princess Diana, Spirit Warriors and Doctors. She has won Best Children’s TV Episode at The Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards twice, and been nominated on two other occasions. Her work has won a national RTS award, an RTS Scotland award, been nominated for two BAFTA awards and two Broadcast awards.
www.davidhigham.co.uk/filmclients/emma-reeves
Joanne Bernard
Joanne trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. She then worked with Kokuma dance company in Birmingham which enabled her to work with some of the best African and Caribbean tutors, Koffi Koko, Peter Badejo, H pattern and Patsy Ricketts to name a few. She has 18 years performance experience working for a variety of companies including Ace Dance and Music (contemporary/African fusion), Foot in hand (disabled and able bodied dancers) and tutti frutti (children’s theatre). Joanne went on to become movement director with Red Earth Theatre based in Derby for 5 productions and then returned to tutti frutti as a choreographer for their autumn show Silly Billy and has been with the company ever since.
Joanne has been a rehearsal director since 2004 working with companies such as State of Emergency and Rosie Kay with who she was rehearsal director for four seasons between 2005 and 2010. She was rehearsal director for Tavaziva dance during the critically acclaimed 2004 production ‘Bophelo’ in which the company toured to Zimbabwe as part of the Harare International Arts Festival. She returned to Tavaziva as rehearsal director for ‘Tavaziva Ten’ in autumn 2014.

Ollie Birch
Ollie trained at LAMDA. As an actor: His recent THEATRE includes THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI Arcola MOBY DICK Arcola THE NORMAN CONQUESTS Liverpool Playhouse THERE IS A WAR National Theatre FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY Arcola ALICE Sheffield Crucible
He is co-artistic director, writer and composer for En Masse which produces original family theatre.
www.olliebirch.com
Kate Bunce
Associate Designer
Kate has designed shows for The New Vic, Birmingham Rep, MAC, Pentabus, Birmingham Symphony Hall, BAC, Polka Theatre and Northampton Royal and Derngate with whom she has designed several large multi-sensory interactive installation plays for young audiences.
Kate designed Michael Morpurgo’s ‘I believe in Unicorns’ for ‘Wizard Presents’. The show premiered at Edinburgh Festival and following a national tour enjoyed great success in the West End 2014/15.
Kate has recently worked with Tutti Frutti designing the ‘SnowChild’ and 'Wild’.
Kate has also worked as a Design lecturer for The Royal College of Art, Central School of Speech and Drama and held prop and assistant design roles for The National theatre, BBC, RSC and Almeida. She trained at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design - MA Scenography and a first class BA Hons in Theatre Design.
Kate lives in St Albans with her partner Jon and two children.

Wendy Harris
Artistic Director
I have held the position of Artistic Director at tutti frutti since 2005 and have directed all but one production in partnership with York Theatre Royal, touring nationally and internationally and co-producing the Little Feet Festival of Children’s Theatre and the First Words writers’ development programme
Before working with tutti frutti I was Artistic Director of Red Ladder Theatre Company, and previous to this; Merseyside Young People’s Theatre Company in Liverpool. Over the years as a freelance director work has included; Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Crucible Theatre Sheffield, Hope Street Ltd, Oxford Stage Company, Unity Theatre Liverpool, European Stage Company, Theatre Royal Stratford East, and Contact Theatre Manchester. I currently live in Leeds with my partner Mark and two sons Louie and Eliot.
Touring Team

Elliot Clark

Mark Pearce
Mark trained at Central. His stage credits include – The BFG (Dukes, Lancaster), Porridge (The Lowry), Life of Pi (Greenwich Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Keswick), Moonlight and Magnolias (Vienna’s English Theatre), Dangerous Lady (Stratford East) and The Firebird (The Watermill).
Musicals include – original principal cast of Ghost (directed by Matthew Warchus), Blues Brothers (West end), Heaven Can Wait (Perth Rep), Carnaby Street (Hackney Empire), Bugle Boy (West end) and Snow White (Qdos).
Shakespeare includes – Twelfth Night (open-air), The Tempest (Heartbreak) and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (OSC).
TV includes - Hornblower (ITV), Strutter (MTV) and Crimewatch (BBC) plus many adverts from Branflakes to Genes Reunited.
Mark is also a busy writer and director, recent work includes directing for Quantum Theatre and Cinderella for ATG. Most recently Mark spent the summer being the Ringmaster with Seaside Cirque.

Mei Mac

Paula James
Theatre includes: Unearthed, Larksong, The Gift, Half A Horse (New Vic Theatre Staffordshire) ; The Revenger's Tragedy (Brockley Jack); Not With A Whimper (Arcola Theatre); Duvet Day (Theatre Delicatessen); Price Tag, Emil And The Detectives (Red Earth Theatre/UK Tour); The Tragedy Of Mariam (Tristan Bates Theatre); Gulliver's Travels (TNT/International Tour); Electra (The Space); Hecuba (New Diorama); Wheelman, Stronger Even Than Me Is We, A Puppet In The Works (BAC).
Film includes: Devotion (TW Productions); Triangles (Satisfaction Production); Blood In (Booruffle Pictures); Lovely Monster (Claw Films).
tutti frutti has a long track record of producing involving and exciting shows for young children and it shows! British Theatre Guide
…the audience, young and old alike, take away a gently magical tale that — with its projected snowflakes and twinkling lights — is an ideal alternative to the bigger budget festive fare. Morning Star
The evocative snow scene, beautifully designed by Kate Bunce, is a source of much wonderment for the younger audience and a nostalgic remembrance of things past for us adults. The State of the Arts
In a delightful, charming three hander called Snow Child, the children’s theatre company tutti frutti has rolled-out the white carpet and kick-started Christmas. Yorkshire Times
As fine, thoughtful theatre which really engages young children, this attractive piece hits all the buttons. The Stage (4 stars)
Snow Child review – a winter’s tale of simple charm The Guardian