REVIEW OF PRINCESS BRIDE
by Deborah Giattina, SF GUARDIAN 12/04, sfbg.com
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Brought to you by Impossible Production - the same group that turned the board game Clue into a live performance - comes The Princess Bride: The Play. What makes the stage version of the novel turned movie especially entertaining is that everything, from the pastoral lands of Guilder to the Cliffs of Insanity to the Fire Swamp, manifest themselves on a stage no bigger than a parking space. An adorably sloppy cast takes you there as they shoulder multiple roles and seem constantly on the verge of tripping over one another whenever more than three people command the stage. Director Cameron Eng, who plays the revenge-driven Inigo, adds some amusing twists to the postmodern fairy tale, such as purposefully shaping Buttercup, played for laughs by Nancy Bower, as the disheveled and awkward beloved of dashing farm boy Westley (Josh Lenn). Mega props go to all the performers for working all the necessary miracles to pull this off.