The MAC, Belfast: Hans Christian Andersen's sweetly moralistic story of the social outcast who blossoms into a thing of beauty has been given a major make-over by Patrick J O Reilly in this lovingly crafted Christmas offering. He makes the point that the unfortunate little grey bird is not a duckling at all, but a cygnet, who finds his way into the wrong family and is cruelly rejected by one and all. When he gro…
SOURCE: The Stage at 08:15AM on December 9, 2013