![]() ![]() Even they, however, cannot leave the confines of the theatre unless the pages with their dialogue are ripped from the Book. The fairies and Ariel number among these. Some characters have more power or agency and can come and go as they please. The characters, readers learn, generally cannot come into our world until a notice with their names are placed on the call board. And it could be, if only the premise made more sense. It seems a play lover’s dream come true, a treasure trove of delight for any Shakespeare fan. She spends her days playing with the fairies from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, flirting with a pirate, and trying to avoid the strangely seductive Ariel. ReviewĮyes Like Stars possesses a fantastic premise, placing an ordinary girl in a theatre where all the characters from the world’s plays and musicals can live and interact–when they’re called, at any rate. Unfortunately, finding a job proves uncommonly difficult when you’re trying to prevent Ariel, the spirit from Shakespeare’s Tempest, from escaping the theatre forever–and taking all the other characters with him. ![]() She herself has no part to play, however, leading the manager to threaten her removal unless she can make herself indispensable to theatre operations. ![]() ![]() Beatrice Shakespeare Smith, Bertie to her friends, lives in a theatre surrounded by the actual characters from the world’s plays and musicals. ![]()
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