{"id":405,"date":"2018-10-11T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2023-04-12T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:30:34","slug":"the-white-bear-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"The White Bear King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The perfect wintery romance. A wonderful fairytale for adults and children over 12. This performance lasts 55 minutes and is suitable for absolutely any venue, but darkness and sparkles of candle light make it truly magical! <strong>The White Bear King<\/strong> is funny, mysterious, moving and transformational. Sally Pomme mixes cowbells, Nordic wedding songs, surreal characters, and gripping narrative to take you on an impossible journey. Sally Pomme also has versions of this performance with singer Helen Chadwick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Illustration-byTheodor-Kittelsen-The-white-bear-king-1912-1.jpg\" alt=\"Illustratiion Theodor Kittelsen 1912\" class=\"wp-image-572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Illustration-byTheodor-Kittelsen-The-white-bear-king-1912-1.jpg 603w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Illustration-byTheodor-Kittelsen-The-white-bear-king-1912-1-420x556.jpg 420w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Illustration-byTheodor-Kittelsen-The-white-bear-king-1912-1-600x794.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Illustration-byTheodor-Kittelsen-The-white-bear-king-1912-1-302x400.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Illustration by Theodor Kittelsen 1912<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Step into a snowy forest for a dark and adult fairytale, with a polar bear and a princess, trolls, stolen children, and a terrible curse. Set in a world of ice and snow, frost and firesides, a princess climbs a glass mountain to set a cursed bear free, but can she undo the terrible Troll Hag&#8217;s spell? Magical and funny, tinged with darkness and pain, this is the perfect treat as the nights draw in. Sometimes you suffer for love \u2013 sometimes you suffer because of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Word magic! Funny and moving, her gestures, expressions, speech, silence and sparkling personality hold her public entranced.&#8221; <\/em><\/strong>The King of Hearts Arts Centre<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perfect wintery romance. A wonderful fairytale for adults and children over 12. This performance lasts 55 minutes and is suitable for absolutely any venue, but darkness and sparkles of candle light make it truly magical! The White Bear King is funny, mysterious, moving and transformational. Sally Pomme mixes cowbells, Nordic wedding songs, surreal characters, and gripping narrative to take you on an impossible journey. Sally Pomme also has versions of this performance with singer Helen Chadwick. Step into a snowy forest for a dark and adult fairytale, with a polar bear and a princess, trolls, stolen children, and a terrible curse. Set in a world of ice and snow, frost and firesides, a princess climbs a glass mountain to set a cursed bear free, but can she undo the terrible Troll Hag&#8217;s spell? Magical and funny, tinged with darkness and pain, this is the perfect treat as the nights draw in. Sometimes you suffer for love \u2013 sometimes you suffer because of love. &#8220;Word magic! Funny and moving, her gestures, expressions, speech, silence and sparkling personality hold her public entranced.&#8221; The King of Hearts Arts Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[50,105],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performances","tag-performance-storytelling-for-adults-uk","tag-storytelling-for-schools-and-families"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}