Sequin Secrets

Behind-the-scenes at The Snow Queen

ank you to Amara Anderson (age 11) and her family who joined us backstage at Edinburgh Festival eatre. Amara tells us her top five stage secrets from e Snow Queen.

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Only the Stage Manager can say ‘go’ to dim the lights. At the lighting desk, the master switch controls the entire auditorium for complete darkness

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e caravans are surprisingly small. Up-close you can see their squashed shape, which looks perfect from a front-on view, but asymmetrical from a side-on view

On sequinned costumes, the places where dancers hold their partners for li s are le bare of sequins e snow is made from torn-up bits of paper placed inside a folded cloth which stretches the entire width of the stage

And the magic trick where one of the dancers disappears — obviously has to remain top secret!

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