Sunday, May 17, 2009

"A Little Princess"

Saw a very nice stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's earnest Victorian tale "A Little Princess" last night. "Lascar" never looked so good! It's a simple story about the triumph of kindness and imagination over cruelty and dull self-regard. A little girl transcends orphanhood and degradation at the hands of a misanthropic school-mistress through the power of "pretend," and transforms other lives along the way. The brain is wider than the sky... and all little girls are princesses. Bravo, 7th- and 8th-graders!

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