The Princess and the Pea for July!

With the nonstop motion of the months of May and June, with recital and with the end of the school year, Peter Rabbit burrowed away in our studio's windows for quite a long time. Not that he outstayed his welcome; he's too cute for that. And the soothing smell of chamomile tea and the sound of bunny snores kept us relaxed throughout recital madness and quite content for a long while.

However, it's officially summer throughout the DMV, and with the beginning of summer camps and the beginning of July, we decided it was time for a change. So the Production team got to work to wish us a happy July and bring us our next theme: 

The Princess and the Pea

The beloved fairytale The Princess and the Pea is the story of the prince who searches the world for the perfect bride. But each one he encounters doesn't seem quite royal enough to suit his mother. Perhaps all the princesses are only silly impersonators hoping to get their hands on a crown! So his very proper mother comes up with a rather gauche test: a true princess, she believes, will be so delicate that a single pea in her mattress will cause her a most distressful night's sleep!

The prince despairs; what reasonable girl will ever notice a single pea beneath a mattress? But the queen is convinced, and when a poor princess is trapped in the rain outside the palace one night, the queen prepares the test.

Placing a single uncooked pea beneath a stack of twenty mattresses and twenty quilts, the queen shows the sopping princess to her room.

And behold, the next morning, the princess comes into the breakfast room battered and bruised and thoroughly exhausted.

They all live happily ever after!