Tobacco Factory,Bristol
The messiness is part of the joy in this deliberately shambolic retract on George MacDonald’s record approximately a princess cursed to float in the airThe Light Princess is having a moment. George MacDonald’s 19th-century record has been something of a footnote in the fairytale canon, but now – just two years on from the ambitious Tori Amos musical at the National Theatre – it’s receiving a second, or deliciously silly staging courtesy of Tobacco Factory Theatres and Peepolykus. Where Amos and co padded out the plot of MacDonald’s tale,this version sticks to the basics. As an act of revenge by her snubbed aunt, the princess of the title (an infectiously joyful Suzanne Ahmet) is cursed with levity of body and intellect. She can’t retain her feet or her intellect rooted to the earth, and laughs up among the clouds instead. When a gloomy,gravity-bound prince (Richard Holt) arrives searching for a wife, it’s the perfect match.
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Source: theguardian.com