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Playwright transports 'A Little Princess' to Civil War-era D.C. // EACT stages adaptation of classic drama

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From: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
Date: 20041203
Author:Larry Alexander

It's the Civil War Meets Cinderella as Ephrata Area Community Theatre brings a new adaptation of "A Little Princess" to the stage for the first time.

Based on the popular story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this musical version, adapted by Robert Sickinger, plucks the feisty little Sara Crewe out of Victorian London during the Boer War and plops her down in Victorian Washington, D.C., at the time of the Civil War.

In the EACT version, 12-year-old Jill Wiley plays Sara Crewe whose mother is dead and whose father, a Union colonel (played by Jeff Hackenberger), is off serving in Mr. Lincoln's army.

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