Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evil and ugly stepsisters, is unexpectedly visited by a transcendent fairy godmother who transforms her rags into a beautiful ball gown, a pumpkin into a carriage and mice into horses. With these new alterations, Cinderella eagerly joins the rest of the elite of the kingdom at the royal ball where she wins the affections of Prince Charming. The clock strikes midnight, her carriage turns back into a pumpkin, Cinderella dramatically runs out of the palace leaving her petite glass slipper behind. No romance would be complete without a quest. Prince Charming travels all over the kingdom with the one slipper...
...Their royal overlords are, well, over matched. Victoria Wei's Princess of France simpers far too much for very little reason. While Wei almost redeems herself with the strength of her final speeches, she seems to have little idea of the character until that point. While pleasantly cocky, Michael McCarthy's King is simply far too vague to ever have commanded allegiance from anyone...
...played Suzi Kettles, the Glaswegian pop singer with hair the color of a petrochemical sunset, in John Byrne's engaging mini-series Tutti Frutti. She was the long-suffering Englishwoman abroad in the BBC mini-series Fortunes of War. Her co-star was a young sensation from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Kenneth Branagh...
...makes no attempt to resolve his contradictions or modify his extremes. If anything he defiantly offers more of both, as if he had taken a motto from William Blake: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." The Gift of the Gorgon, a Royal Shakespeare Company production that will open a limited run in the West End next week after three months at the RSC's base in the Barbican Center, is drenched in stage blood, Greek mythology and high rhetoric about creativity, violence and justice. Once again, Shaffer somehow makes riveting drama...
...royal ditsiness, the new queen wants to pave over the Enchanted Woodyou-bemyneighbor to make room for the Fairest of the Mall. Prettiface's plan angers King Oberon Yourleft (Chip Rosetti), a tree-hugging Shakespearean sprite with magical powers. Hence, political subtext...