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I really enjoyed this exercise in frustration. The love story between the two males leads was touching. The homophobic attitudes were appropriate for the time period. Fortunately, there were several instances of friends and even family feeling compassion and acceptance for their same sex relationship. It was heartbreaking to see how the prince had to constantly reject who he really was because of the expectations placed on him.

There were times I wanted to back slap several of the characters. The father of the prince needed a boot up his butt. I don't think he redeemed himself with his hypocritical excuse of caring about whether the prince was accepted as a homosexual. Thankfully the storyline provided redemption through some of the other characters transformative attitudes.

This production was very melodramatic and at times a little pretentious in how it approached the storyline. I honestly can't fault some of the side characters for being so inept in helping the two lovers escape their awkward and even dangerous situations. I'm not a very good sneaky person either. This was a little long, but I will definitely rewatch it at some point in the future.