A lot of long-awaited projects have been finally making their way to the stage at the National this year; after the Lester/Kinnear/Hytner
Othello and before the SRB/Mendes
Lear, comes Tori Amos' debut as a composer of musical theatre. With Samuel Adamson she's adapted
The Light Princess from a fairytale by George MacDonald. Two warring kingdoms separated by a dangerous forest, Lagobel is rich in gold but plagued by drought, a problem that, as its name suggests, Sealand doesn't have. When Princess Althea of Lagobel (Rosalie Craig) loses her mother, she deals with it by becoming unable to find anything serious again, her lightness of spirit manifesting itself literally as she starts to float. When the same thing happens to Prince Digby of Sealand (Nick Hendrix) he goes the other way and becomes a humourless warrior. When the nations' animosity finally breaks out into war, the two are pitted against each other but, of course, opposites attract.
