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SNOW - Unlike any fairytale you've ever seen. THEATER REVIEW

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Review by: Ramona Maben Marie (Gracie Beardsley,) Jakob Grimm (Ryan Williams,)  Wilhelm Grimm (Jay William Thomas,)  Astrid (Ashley Griffin,)  and Shadow (Ryan Clardy.) Photo by Micah Joel. Snow , an interpretation and adaptation of Snow White , written by Ashley Griffin, is unlike any production of a fairytale one has ever seen. Exploring the power and nature of storytelling through three plot lines that all revolve around Snow White , the play depicts and demonstrates, among other themes, the physical and psychological gender oriented constraints that give structure to the perpetration of terrorism directed onto the feminine. Astrid (Ashley Griffin) and Shadow (Ryan Clardy.) Photo by Micah Joel. Synchronizing the three characters she portrayed - Astrid/Clara/Dortchen, Ms. Griffin beautifully enacts what it is to be woman in life and art. She shows remarkable vulnerability, representing the female situation in ages past and present. With wars untold and wounds uns