Adapted for the stage by Jules Tasca
flexible casting
Open stage
Telling Wilde Tales
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
This full evening's entertainment includes The Birthday of the Infanta, a sad tale of the broken hearted hunchback brought to the palace of the Princess of Spain; The Star Child, a poignant portrait of a boy who thinks he was sent to earth by a shooting star; The Happy Prince, in which a statue and a bird, through their generosity and unselfish spirits, rekindle hope and understanding in their small city; The Nightingale and the Rose, the bittersweet story of love and self-denial; and The Young King, a tale full of hope for man's happiness when a young king discovers human compassion on the day of his coronation.