Theatre Review: Frozen
Dark themes are sensitively handled in this powerful and thought provoking piece of theatre. Nancy (Hazel Maycock, Jean St Clair) is the wife and mother whose daughter disappears on the way to granny’s house. Unwilling to believe her daughter is dead, Nancy establishes an action group that works to unite parents with their missing children. However, her real journey begins when the police find her daughter’s body and reveal the truth about how she died. Ralph (Neil Fox-Roberts, Mike Hugo) is the swearing, tattooed delivery driver who refuses any job which takes him more than eighty miles from the valuable stash of child pornography he keeps in his shed. He talks casually, even proudly, about how he entices young girls into his van. It is only after his arrest and conviction for a number of murders that he is forced to confront the reality of what he’s done. Agnetha (Deepa Shastri, Sophie Stone) is the American psychiatrist whose research brings her to the UK to interview ...