Little Prince

An all ages show, The Little Prince will be presented as the second show of a double bill performance including The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman at the Visual Studies Workshop at 31 Prince Street beginning July 25th and running through August 3rd, 2003. Performances are Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8:00pm. Single tickets range from $8-$10 and may be purchased at the Bread and Water Theatre Box Office in person or to reserve tickets call (585) 538-2105.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep.

"In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.

Often called a children's tale for adults, Exupéry draws his allegorical tale from real life events. His childhood was spent living in France and Switzerland during World War I and his travels as a mail carrier and military pilot took him to all corners of the world where he saw first hand the beginnings of World War II, and as his success as a writer grew so did his interaction with Businessmen and vain people, much like the Little Prince he would later write about.

Using the Poor Theatre style made popular by Jerzy Grotowski in the 1960's The Little Prince will include additional material from the autobiographical The Tale of the Rose by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry and a bare bones theatrical approach. Both innovations take the story into unexplored territory and help confirm the long held belief notion that The Little Prince was written as a love letter to his wife, Consuelo. "She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her…"

The cast includes: Marcy J. Savastano (The Rose, ensemble), Carl Girard (The Little Prince, ensemble), J.R. Teeter (Saint-Ex, ensemble) and Heather Siebert (The Snake, ensemble). Mr. Girard and Ms. Savastano last appeared in Nosoma Theatre's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ms. Siebert is a graduate of SUNY Fredonia and has recently appeared in Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Neil Simon’s Rumors. Ms. Savastano, Mr. Girard and Ms. Siebert will also be appearing in Bread and Water Theatre’s The Yellow Wallpaper.

The creative team consists of J.R. Teeter (Director) who recently directed Candide Carrasco’s Night Passengers and last appeared in Exact Theatre's The Balcony.

Founded in 2001, The Bread and Water Theatre, under the artistic direction of J.R. Teeter, develops theatre that speaks to our new and evolving world through new works of dramatic literature and adapted classics. In the next year, BWT will be applying for non-profit status and aspires to be a major force in American theatre, providing audiences with challenging contemporary drama and innovative community outreach programs.

An all ages show, The Little Prince will be presented as the second show of a double bill performance including The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman at the Visual Studies Workshop at 31 Prince Street beginning July 25th and running through August 3rd, 2003. Performances are Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8:00pm. Single tickets range from $8-$10 and may be purchased at the Bread and Water Theatre Box Office in person or to reserve tickets call (585) 538-2105.

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