The Little Prince
From: Thursday, 4th December 2008
To: Saturday, 10 January 2009
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Synopsis
A pilot is forced to crash land in the Sahara Desert. While he tries to fix his plane he meets The Little Prince, a child who claims to be from another planet. The two become friends as the Little Prince entertains the Pilot with stories of why he had to leave his planet, and all the curious characters he has met on his interplanetary journey to the Earth.
Our Review:
9 December 2008
One year before he was lost in an air-bound spying mission in 1944, the French writer and adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupery published his extraordinary children’s story, The Little Prince, in which a pilot crashes in the Sahara desert and is visited by an inquisitive, philosophical child from another planet, who flies in with a flock of birds.
Hampstead artistic director Anthony Clark has revived his own adaptation (from a translation by Katherine Woods) with music by the late Mark Vibrans – first seen at the Contact in Manchester in 1986 – as a low-tech, Jackanory-style Christmas show that eventually manages to pack a fairly poignant punch and overcome its own sententiousness.
The straw-haired prince is a creature of the stars, borne aloft on a parachute of white Picasso doves, who warns the pilot of dangers to the planet from dangerous trees, as opposed to carbon emissions, and tells stories of kings abandoned by their own people and businessmen who...
Creative
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author)
Hampstead Theatre (Producer)
Anthony Clark (Adaptation)
Mark Vibrans (Music)
Anthony Clark (Director)
Jessica Curtis (Design)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Dane Preece (Musical Director)
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