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...plot of The Frog Prince is familiar to any child who has grown up with The Brothers Grimm. A prince (Jeremy Dawson), soon to marry his beloved, strays onto the land of a hideous crone (Michelle Holdt). When he refuses to offer her his fresh-picked flowers, she turns him into a frog...
Abandoned by all except his loyal servant (Laurent Ruseckas), the Frog Prince wanders through the forest, seeking a woman who will kiss and restore him to his human form. He chooses the beautiful milkmaid (Laura Dickinson), living nearby, as his target...
Mamet and director Noah Kupferberg have a common insight into the interpretation of the fairy tales: the characters in the tale might very well be aware of how insincere or even sarcastic they, and the other players, are being. The actors in The Frog Prince are playful--they take things less seriously than many audience members would expect. The prince, for example, is rightfully dubious when his servant tells him that he and his beloved fiancee are universally loved. "Sire," the servant says, "the people love her as yourself," and the prince rolls his eyes...
Jeremy Dawson spends a good portion of the The Frog Prince rolling his eyes. As the prince, he dispenses scads of flowery phrases he obviously does not believe or even understand. Dawson's facial expressions and zingy one-liners provide much of the play's humor. After his confrontation with the hag, he declares, "I've got just one thought to leave you with: Monarchy!" When the hag first demands the flowers from him, he refuses, taunting her with a juvenile, "Tough...
Particularly well-done is the scene in which the Frog Prince proposes, in frog form, to the milkmaid. Dickinson treats his ludicrous romantic proposals with the deepest seriousness. In contrast with Dickinson's straightforward dealings with people, Dawson's own seem particularly disingenuous...