Pasko, Becky, Aljana, Captain Crewe, and Sara (clockwise from top left: Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Nandi Drayton, Lexi Hart, Tyler McKenna and Katie Robbins) in Berkeley Playhouse’s production of Andrew Lippa’s A Little Princess, directed by Elizabeth McKoy. Photo: Ken Levin
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett was first published in book form in 1905 and has remained one of the most popular children’s books for more than 100 years. Three versions of the story have come to the big screen.
The theatricality of the story was limited, however, because the action is set in a girls’ boarding school in London during the Victorian era. The father of young Sara Crewe, fresh from living in India, enrolls her at Miss Minchin’s, a finishing school for young ladies. The wealthy Sara is friendly, generous, not snobbish, and becomes the darling of the school (even though Miss Minchin secretly hates her). She befriends the scullery maid and the school’s least popular girls, and uses her imagination to tell exotic stories.(...)
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