A flight of fancy on a paper airplane, but they haven’t got all the rough edges off yet.

Nicholas Lloyd-Webber and James D Reid’s musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince arrives at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast with a paper airplane, a light show and a score full of toe-tapping musical numbers.

‘Why are grown-ups so very odd?’ Niamh Perry’s boyish blonde cropped Little Prince queries the audience earnestly. That is, essentially, the central tenet of The Little Prince, of course. It is all about becoming an adult or staying a child, the benefits and the drawbacks.

Maybe the audience should accept the Little Prince as real, or maybe it is all the dehydrated fever dream of the Pilot, played by Kare Conradi, in the desert – all analogy and metaphor and slices of psyche.

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Image from The Little Prince, Lyric Theatre Belfast by Steffan Hill.