Monday 1 Jan 2007

Young Vic, 66 The Cut, London SE1 8LZ; Tickets and Information: Tel. 020 7922 2922; www.youngvic.org

Tickets from £21.50. Under 26s only £9.50.

When you’re a princess you expect a fairytale wedding. You don’t expect your husband to be hairy, smelly and a genuine pig.

On their wedding night she finds he is magically transformed back into a prince. Of course it’s only true love that will break the spell – and Flora must wear out three pairs of steel shoes and go on a series of epic adventures to prove that her love for him is real to break the spell forever…

Based on a Romanian folktale (‘The Enchanted Pig’ by Petre Ispirescu *), this terrifically tuneful family show follows the huge success of ‘Tintin’ at the Barbican last year.
‘Each Christmas the Young Vic produces one of the most glowing and inventive shows of the year’. The Observer

‘The Young Vic has the best Christmas show record of any London theatre’. Financial Times
A Young Vic & The Opera Group co-production.

Direction: John Fulljames; Music: Jonathan Dove; Words: Alasdair Middleton; Design: Dick Bird; Lighting: Paul Anderson; Choreography: Philippe Giraudeau;
Cast includes: Kate Chapman, Rodney Clarke, Joshua Dallas, Akiya Henry, Caryl Hughes, John Rawnsley, Nuala Willis

* Petre Ispirescu (1830-1887) was a Romanian publisher and folklore gatherer. His collections of folktales have enjoyed tremendous success and many of them are still part of the must-read Romanian fairytales even now. You can read ‘The Enchanted Pig’, the inspiration for this show, in the original Romanian at http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Porcul_cel_fermecat