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...race stands between them. While this isn't unexplored territory, what makes this production a standout is Gien's impressive performance in creating 28 fully realized characters on a sparsely decorated stage. Through her expressive movements and creative vocalizations - most startlingly in rapid-fire exchanges between six-year old Elizabeth and her redoubtable, deep-voiced South African caretaker - Gien single-handedly fills the stage with the people, music and verdant countryside of South Africa...
...Gien's dazzling performance only enhances the simple emotional power of the tale. What we see through the eyes of six-year-old Elizabeth, her black caretaker and the others who populate this story is that apartheid was not only fought in the frontline political struggle broadcast around the world, but also in the closely knit circles of families, in the intimacies of individual relationships and in the quiet but fierce struggles of personal conscience...
...TIME.com: Much of the play is seen through the eyes of a six-year-old child, Elizabeth. Why did you choose to use her voice...
...early pieces of the play together, the child's voice came to me like a magical gift. She was just there, tentative, joyful, almost inaudible. I don't recall how I was as a child, but I certainly remember how I felt, and I've written Elizabeth from that young, innocent place. She takes us on the journey through the play, never commenting politically, only witnessing. She tells us what she sees, and the audience feels what she must be feeling. I think she's a gift because she brings us back to that early place, that magical and joyful...
...Kennedy, pirate and paterfamilias, son of a Boston Irish saloonkeeper, delighted in the company of the royals. During lunch at Windsor Castle in April 1939, Kennedy told his diary, "Somebody at table discovered a ladybug and Princess Elizabeth suggested it was good luck and sent it along to the Prime Minister. So it came along on a gold spoon, one from another, and I handed it to the Queen, and then she tried to tip it out on the Prime Minister's shoulder, most gently...