“The prince and his aides searched all around the world to find the woman who had lost that slipper. They found countries where women wore wooden shoes, boots with blades for gliding on the ice, long thin wooden slats for sliding over snow, riding boots, and every kind of footwear you can imagine, but never did they find a woman who could wear the slipper that the prince’s ideal woman had lost.” A quotation from the playbill of the American Ballet Theater’s Cinderella, which I saw last night.
The stepsisters of Cinderella were much more interesting and lovable than Cinderella and I had warm feelings for Cinderella’s stepmother. “Amante” admired the stepsisters as well. There were many young children in the audience and I thought of my godson and the various traps of fairytales.