The Little Match Girl review – a Christmas cracker

Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London
Corey Claire Annand bewitches as a freezing waif in Arthur Pita’s quirky, imaginative update of the Hans Christian Andersen classicTo 19th-century authors, Christmas presented the perfect opportunity for social commentary. A favourite theme was the contrast between wealth and poverty, between the firelit drawing rooms of the prosperous and the stark and frozen world beyond the silk curtains. For every fictional child such as Clara in The N