A show brimming with colour and imagination. A funny and original take on this classic story.

"Tomorrow will be the start of a new Ice Age" crowed Crackers the weathercock from his chimney pot. But no-one listened until the World grew colder and with it the heart of a small boy called Kay.

Now the Snow Queen rules unless little Gerda can melt the ice.

When no fire can beat this cold, can a true heart?

What people have to say ....

"A breath of vision and experience makes "Jactito" the dynamic company it is ......Jactito successfully brings together various visual theatre art forms creating a fresh synthesis"

Daily Telegraph

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"Monkey's Dream" performed by the Jactito Puppet Company on the stage of the cinema at the Barbican on Saturday, shows this company at it's best - with James and Joan Barton giving full reign to their gift for fantasy.

All the figures - both rod and glove puppets - represent strange creatures: animals, clouds and even a tree is mysteriously transformed and the piece takes the form of a puppet ballet danced to delightfuly appropriate and animated music

At times the stage is so peopled with puppets that it is impossible to believe that there are only two manipulators; and the movements of each puppet have their own characteristic and expressive quality, so that the use of dialogue can be kept to a minimum. This belletic quality does much to make the piece appeal equally to children and adults.

Another admirable feature is the apparently carefree use of imaginative distortions of scale. An elephant for example, is relatively small and the leader of the ants is relatively large, so it is quite reasonable, in this world of fantasy, that the elephant should be frightened of the ant.
Daily Telegraph