Kai: Well, it is made skillfully, such accuracy! It is much more interesting than real flowers! Kai: Have you seen a snowflake through the magnifying glass? Gerdah: Kai, look, they are whirling like white bees! The frost drew strange patterns on glasses, and the wind was turning whirlwinds of white snowflakes along the street. The author: Time has passed and icy cold snow winter came to change the warm tender summer. ( The Grandmother sits in an armchair and knits, children sit beside her) ( Gerdah takes the flowers in her hands and fondles them) Kai: I don’t need your tea, as well as these rotten roses ! Gerdah: I have not made anything to you, let’s better go to have tea! Kai: ( keeps away from her) let me alone, a whining little girl! Gerdah: Kai, what is the matter with you?! Lovely sworn brother, does it hurt?! ( holds his hand on his heart, Gerdah runs in) Kai: Ah, I have got something in my eye! ( rubs the eye, stands up) Ah, my heart! And these splinters scattered all over the world… Good things looked like bad, fine – like ugly, and true – like false.Īnd the trolls wanted to lift this mirror up to the sky, but … ( pause) the mirror has escaped, and, having fallen to the ground, broke into millions and millions smithereens. The author: Far away from this place, there was a furious, very wicked troll. Gerdah: Of course, granny (She stands up and addresses Kai) –Kai, wait for me. Gerdah’s Grandmother: I have prepared tea for you, help me to lay the table, my dear. ( She addresses her grand daughter) Gerdah. Kai: I wonder whether we can be like these roses? Gerdah: And what a wonderful aroma! Just feel it, Kai!

Kai: Gerdah, look at our roses! They have become so beautiful! They were so amicable that they could not live without each other even one day.

The windows of their houses faced each other and the children cheerfully played and looked after fine roses on a small balcony connecting the houses. The author: There lived a boy and a girl in a big city where the capstans of houses touch clouds and swallows build their nests under the tile roofs. ( Kai and Gerdah are sitting on the floor before their roses in a flowerpot, the children are looking at the flowers and watering them) * – the words specified by italic characters show the action She–robber (woman, mother of Girl–robber) The play on the motives of the fairy-tale by Andersen, the author of the script is Alexey Yegorov, first performed by the Sahaja collective of Kazan, Russia Snow Queen, Fidelity and the Power of Pure Love

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