GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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The Little Prince, Omnibus Theatre London
Fantasy fun for young children
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ALTHOUGH one of the best-loved stories of the last century, Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s enchanting novella The Little Prince is not performed on stage enough.
It’s certainly no common choice for a Christmas production, possibly because the classic children’s fable of love, war, imagination and greed can seem a daunting story to perform for five and six-year-olds.
Yet writer Sally Pomme Clayton and director Marie McCarthy pull it off in this charming version in which a pilot, who’s crashed his plane in the desert, forms an unlikely friendship with a young prince from asteroid B-612.
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