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Knollsea Productions Mowlem Theatre Swanage January 2005 It’s just the right length, has plenty of local references, a strong, clear story line, great songs and masses of humour. And the set and lighting are as near perfect as anyone could wish for. The performances are super too - I even forgive the principal who responded to one of the prompt’s rare interpolations with “eh?”, because it caused such a laugh - and for our money we get a beautiful, sweet-voiced heroine, Snow White (Laura Fidler), a wicked, boo-inducing Queen Chopemov (Ro Smith), oodles of laughs from her staff Zsa Zsa Nastikov (Brian Travers), Bandy (Victoria Willshire) and Squintov (John Attwood), a romantic Prince Rudolph (Grace Peden) and seven delightful dwarfs, at least six of whom are probably rubbing their sore knees even as I write. There’s plenty of aah factor too, especially from the Queen’s Page (a tiny but very confident Joseph Harris), and a lively, happy chorus, although why their numbers were so much diminished by the final curtain is a mystery that must remain unsolved. Perhaps I should ask that magic mirror. Linda Kirkman Courtesy of the Bournemouth Daily Echo 
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