The girl who saves the prince
When playwright Lila Rose Kaplan was a little girl, her mother gave her the book “The Light Princess” by George MacDonald: the story of a girl who, unlike in other fairy tales, saves the prince. Inspired and in love with the story into adulthood, Kaplan connected with composer and lyricist Mike Pettry and adapted the book into a stage production. Originally published in 1864, “The Light Princess” tells the tale of a girl cursed to have no gravity and to forever float until she “finds her gravity by falling in love,” said Kaplan. The tale is “romantic and funny,” she said, including a “great heroine, who saves the prince at the end.” Author MacDonald was a mentor to Lewis Carroll. Kaplan and Pettry took their ideas and the script to the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) resident director, Allegra Libonati. “I was captivated by this idea of a protagonist who has no emotional or personal...