El Petit Príncep - T.1

When we were thinking about making a musical based on The Little Prince we did it under the premise that Sanint-Exupéry’s novel is one of the most spread and loved stories worldwide. It has been adapted for film, theatre, opera, radio... The Little Prince is a universal tale. Our objective when we started to work on it was to bring it to the stage as never seen before. But, how could we do that? In the first place, keeping its essence, its core. Saint-Exupéry’s text has many possible interpretations, it is no sweet but cruel, it shows people miseries; from a sweet point of view, but it does. It is also a love story because it explains the trip of a kid who aims to understand that feeling: love. To bring to the stage this metaphoric text full of poetry, we have worked with mapping design that generates textures and areas that allow us to fill up with volume and colour each set in the play. We will feel that we are inside Saint-Exupéry’s world: we will cross the desert, we will walk on the grass, we will fly over B612 asteroid, we will visit the king’s planet and we will lose ourselves in the geographer’s world. Every design will be a very detailed visual explosion. What’s more, in order to make the experience of this journey as real as possible, there is a sound system that allows music to have an outstanding presence in the show, creating a rollercoaster of emotions: we will feel, as the Little Prince does, happiness, joy, excitement, hope, disappointment, curiosity...

Making the musical of The Little Prince means sharing our interpretation of an emblematic story with those who know and love it and, at the same time, explaining it to the ones that have never heard about it. I imagine people of my generation coming to the theatre with their children in order to show them The Little Prince through our performance. And yes, when I grow up I want to be like him, like the Little Prince: a person who always tells the truth, who has no fear, who doesn’t hide and never loses curiosity. Someone who doesn’t want to quit learning. Someone who doesn’t want to grow up if it means forgetting how to be a child. 

Àngel Llàcer, director and actor