| In
the show “It’s Perfectly
True” Susse Wold talks
about master fairy tale-teller
Hans Christian Andersen, who
grew up in the provincial town
of Odense, Denmark, in perpetual
fear of witches and goblins.
His father, the shoemaker, was
a hopeless dreamer and his mother
made a living washing the linens
of the well-to-do in Odense
creek.
Susse
Wold explains how, at only
fourteen, Andersen arrived
in the capital of Copenhagen,
took up residence inside an
old food storage in the worst
part of town. There was no
food and no windows, only
two ventilation holes in the
door. Andersen, in order to
survive, started begging in
the streets. Susse Wold tells
the story of how, gradually,
Andersen is granted access
to the upper classes and even
becomes a protégé
of the king himself.
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the performance.
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